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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHIVELY 

(Late a Senator from Indiana) 

MEMORIAL ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED IN THE 

SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

OF THE UNITED STATES 

SIXTY-FOURTH CONGRESS 
SECOND SESSION 



Proceedings in the Senate Proceedings in the House 

February 18, 1917 February 18, 1917 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



Proceedings in the Senate 5 

Prayer by Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D 6 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. John W. Kern, of Indiana 11,34 

Mr. Knute Nelson, of Minnesota.-.-. 18 

Mr. William J. Stone, of Missouri- . . 22 

Mr. Reed Smoot, of Utah 24 

Mr. John Sharp Williams, of Mississippi 27 

Mr. James E. Watson, of Indiana 29 

Proceedings in the House 35 

Prayer by Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D __ 30,37 

Memorial addresses by — 

Mr. Henry A. Barnhart, of Indiana 41 

Mr, William E. Cox, of Indiana 48 

Mr. Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana 55 

Mr. John A. M. Adair, of Indiana 63 

Mr. William R. Wood, of Indiana 06 

Mr. William A. Cullop, of Indiana G8 

Mr. Cyrus Cline, of Indiana 70 

Mr. Charles Lieb, of Indiana... 74 

Mr. Finly H. Gray, of Indiana 7S 

Mr. Martin A. Morrison, of Indiana 80 



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HON. BENJAMIN F. SHIVELY 



DEATH OF HON. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SHIVELY 



Proceedings in the Senate 

Tuesday, March U, 1916. 

Mr. Kern. Mr. President, the saddest duty of my official 
life now devolves upon me. It is to convey to the Senate 
the sad intelligence of the death of that distinguished 
Member of this body, my colleague, the Hon. Benjamin F. 
Shively, of Indiana. 

At another time I shall have occasion to say more 
regarding the life and character of the deceased. At pres- 
ent I offer the resolutions which I send to the desk and ask 
that they may be adopted. 

The Vice President. The Secretary will read the resolu- 
tions. 

The resolutions (S. Res. 129) were read and unani- 
mously agreed to, as follows : 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
found sorrow of the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, late 
a Senator from the State of Indiana. 

Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of the 
late Senator. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
removed from Washington to South Bend, Ind., for burial in charge 
of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, who shall 
have full power to carry these resolutions into effect. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

The Vice President, in compliance with the provision of 
the second resolution, appointed Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith of 

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Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clapp, Mr. Johnson of Maine, 
Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Swanson, Mr. James, Mr. Sutherland, Mr. 
Martine of New Jersey, Mr. Phelan, and Mr. Smith of 
Georgia the committee on the part of the Senate. 

Mr. Kern. Mr. President, as a further mark of respect to 
the memory of Senator Shively I move that the Senate do 
now adjourn. 

The motion was unanimously agreed to; and (at i 
o'clock and 35 minutes p. m.) the Senate adjourned until 
to-morrow, Wednesday, March 15, 1916, at 12 o'clock 
meridian. 

Wednesday, March 15, 1916. 

The Chaplain, Rev. Forrest J. Prettyman, D. D., offered 
the following prayer: 

Almighty God, we come to this sacred moment of our 
day's work when in thought and aspiration we touch the 
boundaries of the great unseen and the eternal world and 
lift our hearts to the Father of our spirits. We remem- 
ber in this moment one who has been called from the 
scenes of his earthly career into the great beyond, rever- 
enced and respected by all who knew him, while those 
who came within the charmed circle of his personal influ- 
ence held him in affection and friendship. 

We bless Thee to-day for the high ideals that have been 
maintained in this honorable body through all its history, 
and by every man who closing his record here has left 
behind him the achievement of these ideals in his per- 
sonal life and character. 

Grant, we pray, to send to us to-day the influence and 
ministry that should come to us in an hour like this, re- 
membering that we are passing along the same journey, 
serving the same great country, aspiring to the same high 
ideals. And we pray that Thou wilt lay Thy hand upon 
the heart and mind of every one of his colleagues remain- 

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ing here in active service, inspiring them to the reconse- 
cration of their lives to the interests of their country and 
to the honor and glory of the name of the God of our 
fathers. 

Hear us in this our prayer. Chasten us with Thy holy 
spirit of truth. For Christ's sake. Amen. 

The Vice President. The Chair feels constrained to an- 
nounce that last evening the Chair endeavored to secure a 
definite statement that the Senators named would attend 
the funeral of Senator Shively. Owing to the sudden- 
ness of the death and the engagements of Senators, it was 
difficult to procure the promise of Senators who were old- 
time friends of Senator Shively, and the Chair, without 
succeeding in getting definite promises, appointed the 
committee. 

The Chair understands that the train will leave at 6.15 
to-morrow night, and that the funeral will not take place 
until 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon in the city of South 
Bend. If, therefore, any of the Senators named by reason 
of any cause can not attend, the Chair would like to be 
notified as soon as possible in order that the committee 
may be filled up. 

So long has been the personal friendship of the de- 
ceased Senator and the Vice President that the Chair will 
feel it his duty, as but a decent mark of courtesy for many 
years of personal friendship, that he should attend the 
funeral. 

The Senate will receive a message from the House of 
Representatives. 

A message from the House of Representatives, by D. K. 
Hempstead, its enrolling clerk, transmitted to the Senate 
resolutions of the House on the death of Hon. Benjamin 
F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 



Memorial Addresses: Senator Shively 

Thursday, March 16, 1916. 
The Presiding Officer. If the Senate will indulge the 
Chair, the Vice President has asked the occupant of the 
chair to announce the appointment of the following com- 
mittee to attend the funeral of the late Senator Shively: 
Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith of Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Hollis, 
Mr. Johnson of Maine, Mr. Poindexter, Mr. Sterling, Mr. 
Thompson, Mr. Ashurst, and Mr. Page. 

Saturday, April 1, 1916. 

The Vice President. The Chair lays before the Senate a 
note of thanks from Mrs. Shively addressed to the Senate 
of the United States, which will be read. 

The Secretary read the note, as follows : 

To the Senate of the United States: 

Mrs. Shively and the members of her family desire to express 
their deep appreciation of your sympathy and extend to you their 
most grateful thanks for a beautiful floral wreath. 

Thursday, January 11, 1917. 
Mr. Kern. Mr. President, I desire to give notice that on 
Saturday, the 17th day of February, 1917, immediately 
after the routine morning business, the Senate will be 
asked to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
life, character, and public services of Senator Benjamin 
F. Shively, of Indiana; of Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
Maine; and of Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 

Tuesday, February 15, 1917. 
Mr. Bobinson. Mr. President, some days ago the Senator 
from Indiana [Mr. Kern] gave notice that on Saturday, the 
17th day of February, 1917, immediately after the routine 
morning business, he would ask the Senate to consider 
resolutions in commemoration of the life, character, and 
public services of the late Senator Benjamin F. Shively, 
of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of Maine; 
and of the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. A 

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conference has been held by Senators from the States of 
Indiana, Maine, and Arkansas, and, at the suggestion of 
the Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] and other Senators, 
and for the convenience of Senators I submit a request for 
unanimous consent, as follows: 

That the Senate convene on Sunday, February 18, 1917, at 11 
o'clock a. m., to consider resolutions in commemoration of the 
life, character, and public services of the late Senator Benjamin 
F. Shively, of Indiana; the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, of 
Maine; and the late Senator James P. Clarke, of Arkansas. 

The Presiding Officer (Mr. Beckham in the chair). Is 
there objection to the unanimous-consent agreement? 
The Chair hears none, and it is so ordered. 

Sunday, February 18, 1917. 

Mr. Kern. Mr. President, in pursuance of the notice 
heretofore given, I offer the resolutions which I send to 
the desk. 

The Vice President. The resolutions will be read. 

The Secretary read the resolutions, as follows: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with profound sorrow of 
the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, late a Senator from 
the State of Indiana. 

Resolved, That as a mark of respect to the memory of the de- 
ceased the business of the Senate be now suspended to enable his 
associates to pay proper tribute to his high character and distin- 
guished public services. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives and transmit a copy thereof to the 
family of the deceased. 



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Address of Mr. Kern, of Indiana 

Mr. President: When it was announced in the Senate 
on the afternoon of the 14th of March last that the dis- 
tinguished senior Senator from Indiana had passed out of 
life in Providence Hospital in this city but a few moments 
before, there was sorrow, sincere and profound, on both 
sides of the Chamber. While all realized the loss of one 
of their ablest and most honored associates, there were 
very many Senators who mourned the loss of a friend 
for whom they entertained feelings of the most affection- 
ate regard. 

The sad intelligence was not unexpected here in Wash- 
ington, for all were familiar with the brave and heroic 
fight for life he had been making for more than a year, 
and many had been witnesses to the dreadful suffering 
he had endured and the matchless fortitude with which 
he had so long fought the losing battle. 

And when the message announcing the end of this 
honorable and useful life was flashed across the moun- 
tains to the great Commonwealth whose Senator he was 
the expressions of sorrow were universal, and from the 
lake to the river there came up from the people — men and 
women of all parties — the strongest manifestations of 
their deep appreciation of the splendid services rendered 
by their great Senator, who for so many years and with 
such great ability and rare fidelity had represented them 
first in one and then the other branch of the National 
Congress. 



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He was born in Indiana— born and brought up on an 
Indiana farm— and until he attained his majority his life 
was spent in the midst of the good country people of his 
section, working on the farm in the summer, first attend- 
ing and then teaching in the common schools in the winter. 
He knew the nature of their joys and the depth of their 
sorrows, and by this experience he had first-hand knowl- 
edge of the aims and purposes, the needs and desires, the 
hopes and aspirations of the great body of the people 
whom he was afterwards to serve with such distinction, 
and it was this knowledge thus acquired which made of 
him such an effective champion of popular rights. 

He loved his native State and in return her people hon- 
ored him and ungrudgingly gave to him the highest proof 
of their confidence and esteem, so that when the end 
came there was universal sorrow throughout the State, for 
one of her best-loved and most distinguished sons was 
" gone forever and ever by " and the face and figure so 
well known of all were never more to be seen amongst 
men. 

Benjamin Franklin Shively was born in St. Joseph 
County, Ind., on the 20th day of March, 1857. He never 
resided elsewhere, and his body rests in the soil of his 
native county within a few miles of the place of his birth. 
His father, Rev. Joel Shively, was a minister of the Gos- 
pel, his mother a devoted Christian woman, so that he 
was brought up under the influence and within the envi- 
ronment of a Christian home. His youthful experiences 
were those of the average farm lad in the Central West, 
working on the farm in the summer and attending the 
common schools in the winter until his eighteenth year, 
when he became a teacher in the schools which he had 
attended as a pupil, and continued to teach in the winter 
seasons for several years, until 1880, when he engaged in 



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journalistic work until 1884, in the meanwhile giving 
some time to the study of law. 

His entry into the political field was under circum- 
stances somewhat remarkable. In 1884, the year of the 
great Cleveland-Blaine campaign, Hon. William H. Cal- 
kins, who had represented the South Bend district in 
Congress for several terms, received the Republican 
nomination for governor of Indiana, and resigned his 
seat in Congress. 

For the long term the Democrats of the district had 
nominated Hon. George Ford, a very able lawyer, of South 
Bend, now the judge of the superior court of that county. 
After the resignation of Mr. Calkins it became necessary 
to nominate a candidate to fill out his unexpired term. 
As St. Joseph County was the home of Mr. Ford, already 
nominated for the long term, the nomination for the short 
term would in the natural course of politics have been 
given to a citizen of some other county, for there were 
several counties in the district, and in all of them were 
men of such ability and distinction as to have made 
creditable and formidable candidates. But the attention 
of many had been attracted by the journalistic work of 
young Shively, who since his majority had affiliated with 
the organization known as the Greenback Party — being 
made up in Indiana of men of character and ability, who 
believed with many men of both of the old political 
parties in the quantitative theory of money, and many of 
whose views as to the proper status of the greenback under 
the law were afterwards approved and vindicated by the 
Supreme Court of the United States. 

As young Shively's sympathies in the presidential cam- 
paign were known to be with Cleveland as against Blaine, 
and he had shown much ability in his newspaper work, 
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wisdom to enlist his active service in the campaign, and 
the nomination was tendered him and accepted, and after 
a brilliant and aggressive canvass he was elected and 
served out the unexpired term, which ran from December, 
1884, until March, 1885. He was the youngest Member 
of Congress, but by his manly bearing, modest demeanor, 
and the ability shown in committee and on the floor 
he won the confidence and regard of all, and a career 
of great usefulness was predicted for him by many party 
leaders. 

At the end of this short term he entered the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan to continue his prep- 
aration for the legal profession and pursued his studies 
so energetically and successfully that he was graduated 
with the degree of bachelor of laws during the next year. 

The district was normally Republican by considerable 
majority, and prior to 1884 had been represented by a 
Republican for many years; so in 1886 the Republicans 
resolved to redeem it if possible and named as their 
congressional candidate their strongest man, Gen. Jasper 
Packard, a gallant Union soldier, a skilled debater, and 
seasoned politician. 

Mr. Shively's record, during the short term he had 
served, was so satisfactory that he was given the Demo- 
cratic nomination without opposition. A series of joint 
debates was arranged, and a most interesting campaign 
inaugurated. Great crowds greeted the candidates at 
these joint meetings, and intense interest was manifested. 
Young Shively more than met the expectations of his 
friends, and was hailed everywhere as the champion of 
the young Democracy of the State. Although the Repub- 
lican State ticket carried the district, he was elected by 
more than a thousand majority, and his reputation as 
an orator and debater was firmly established. 



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He was reelected in 1888 and 1890, and though the 
unanimous choice of the party in 1892, declined the nomi- 
nation that he might engage in the practice of his pro- 
fession. 

It was while serving his third term in Congress that 
he married Miss Laura Jenks, daughter of Hon. George 
A. Jenks, a distinguished citizen of Pennsylvania, who 
was Solicitor General of the United States during the 
first Cleveland administration. Three children were born 
of this union, George J., John J., and Mary M., all of whom 
are living and giving promise of lives of usefulness. 
Senator Shively was tenderly devoted to his family and 
home. 

In 1896 the Democratic Party of Indiana, by a well- 
nigh unanimous vole, gave to Mr. Shively the nomination 
for governor of the State. It was a most exciting contest. 
From the time that Bryan made his great convention 
speech at Chicago there was not a day that was not full 
of dramatic interest in the Indiana campaign. Shively 
was at his best. His oratory was second only to that 
of Bryan, and under the inspiring leadership of these two 
young champions of popular rights there was such a 
rallying of the hosts as has never been witnessed since. 

Shively was at the very forefront of the battle every 
day. Handsome in person, commanding in presence, with 
rich and resonant voice, and genuine oratory born of deep 
conviction, he sounded the trumpet call, and the very 
earth was trembling for weeks beneath the tread of the 
marching hosts of the people. 

He went down in defeat, but it was an honorable, if 
not glorious, defeat. His splendid leadership was every- 
where acknowledged, and he was given the complimen- 
tary vote of his party for United States Senator, while it 
was in the minority, and in 1909, when, for the first time 



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since 1893, it had the opportunity to confer the honor, it 
nominated and elected him to the position which he 
filled so honorably and with such distinguished ability 
to the hour of his death. 

Senator Shively's great ability as an orator was recog- 
nized throughout the Union, and in every- campaign there 
were demands for him in all the debatable States, and 
from New England to the Pacific coast he had been a 
commanding figure in the field of campaign oratory. 

His record in both Houses of Congress was an enviable 
one. Whether in the committee room, in the executive 
departments, in legislative work upon the floor, or in the 
party councils, he was always strong and effective. He 
rose to membership on the Ways and Means Committee 
of the House at a time when the tariff question was para- 
mount and became at once conspicuous and influential in 
shaping the tariff policy of his party, and his addresses in 
both Houses on that subject were equal to the best ever 
delivered by any of the great party leaders. 

In the Senate he served with great distinction on the 
Finance Committee and that on Foreign Relations and 
was chairman of the important and busy Committee on 
Pensions. During the long illness of Senator Stone he 
was acting chairman of the Committee on Foreign Rela- 
tions and at a time when questions of great international 
importance were perplexing the President and the coun- 
try. He proved himself equal to the great work and 
commanded the confidence and admiration of the Presi- 
dent and the Secretary of State, both of whom frequently 
sought his counsel and prized highly the very important 
service he rendered them. 

I came to the Senate in 1911 without legislative experi- 
ence and at once sought the advice and aid of my dis- 
tinguished colleague. He gave me both ungrudgingly and 
unselfishly, and our relations up to the day of his death 

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were of the most cordial character. He was deeply solic- 
itous that there should be harmony of action between us, 
and on all important questions we conferred fully, so 
that, if possible, we might act and vote in agreement. 
As a result we kept in perfect accord, our only division 
of opinion being on the literacy test of the immigration 
bill, and, as we conscientiously differed on this point, 
there was not the slightest friction. 

In the recommendations we were called upon to make 
for appointments to office he was generous to a fault, 
and, although we had scores of friends, applicants for 
the same positions, we never had the slightest difficulty in 
arriving at a satisfactory result. 

It was at Senator Shively's suggestion that I was made 
a member of the Finance Committee of the Senate within 
two months after I became a Member of this body, and it 
was on his motion two years later that I was made chair- 
man of the majority conference. 

He was a man of great heart and noble impulses, a 
statesman of profound learning and exalted patriotism, 
and he has been and will be sadly missed in the councils 
of the Nation. 

He was my friend, and I shall never cease to honor his 
memory. May he rest in peace. 



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Address of Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota 

Mr. President: Indiana is one of the great States carved 
out of the " territory northwest of the Ohio River." It 
was given a Territorial government in 1800, and became 
a State in 1816. Barring a few scattered French hamlets, 
most of the pioneer settlers of Indiana came from two 
sources, the earliest — and perhaps the greatest number- 
came from the States south of the Ohio River, and among 
this class was the family of Abraham Lincoln. This im- 
migration was supplemented by a considerable number 
from the Eastern and Northeastern Slates. Tins double 
source of immigration led to a slight cleavage on the ques- 
tion of slavery at an early period in the history of the 
State, for, although the ordinance of 1787 had prohibited 
the " institution," yet an effort, which had no great 
strength and soon collapsed, was made for its retention. 
This double ethnic source from which the population of 
the State has sprung has no doubt, to some extent, led to 
the many hot and close political controversies which have 
prevailed, so that, politically speaking and from a party 
standpoint, the State has for upward of three-quarters of 
a century been regarded as a so-called "close State." 
The result of this political contention, ever recurring, has 
been to breed from lime to time a large number of able 
statesmen and versatile and eloquent orators in both of 
the great political parties. The political battles have 
always been strenuous and acute, and have called for and 
produced aggressive and militant leaders on both sides. 
There has not been much room, as a rule, for such politi- 
cal leaders as arc sometimes called " political accidents." 
To become a political leader in such a State and under 

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such conditions real and substantial ability and energy 
are required. Mere ancestry or wealth is of little conse- 
quence. 

The fact that our late colleague, Senator Shively, be- 
came one of the leaders of Ins party in the State of his 
birth, and the State which he so ably represented in this 
body, is ample proof of his integrity, his ability, and his 
qualifications as a leader. He could not have attained 
the prominence and leadership that was his without 
ability of a high order. He was not born in the lap of 
luxury and had no strong friends at court to give him a 
start in life. By his own efforts, and without help from 
outside sources, he managed to secure a fair education, 
and was admitted to the bar as a practicing lawyer. Dur- 
ing his earlier years, while he was engaged in securing his 
education, he taught school, worked on the farm, and did 
other strenuous manual labor. Among other work in 
which he had been engaged in those earlier years, he in- 
formed me that during one season he operated a thrashing 
machine among the farmers of Wabasha County, Minn.. 
and he seemed highly pleased with his experience in that 
line of activity. 

Most of the bright, brainy, and active young men in the 
State of Indiana naturally turned to politics, and this was 
the case with Senator Shively. At the early age of 26, 
in 1883, he was elected a Member of the Forty-eighth Con- 
gress and was reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and 
Fifty-second Congresses. It was my fortune to be an 
associate of his and to serve with him in the Forty-eighth 
and Fiftieth Congresses. He was one of the youngest but 
most active Members of that body. Few Members, if any, 
were more prominent than he when serving their first 
term. During that early period of our service we boarded 
at the same hotel, when I became intimately acquainted 
with him not only officially but socially, and I found him 



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to be a most genial, warm-hearted, and sympathetic com- 
panion. 

He was very industrious and attentive to public busi- 
ness, and during the latter part of his service in the House 
he ranked among the more prominent Members of that 
body. During the Fifty-first Congress he was a member 
of the Committee on Banking and Currency and the Com- 
mittee on Indian Affairs, both very important committees; 
and during the Fifty-second Congress he was a prominent 
member of the Committee on Ways and Means. 

On leaving Congress he resumed the practice of law. 
But his ability as a political leader and speaker soon 
brought him again into the political field, and in 1896 he 
became the candidate of his party for the governorship. 
While he failed to be elected, he nevertheless polled his 
full party vote. After an interregnum of 13 years, during 
which time he was busy in his profession as a lawyer, 
though not inactive in politics, his party in 1909 elected 
him a Member of the Senate, and in 1914 reelected him 
for a second term of six years, but it was not his fate to 
be permitted to serve out his second term. He passed 
away from this life, after a lingering illness, on the 14th 
day of March, 1916, during the early part of the first 
month of the second year of his last term, in the 58th year 
of his age, mourned and missed by his family, his State, 
his party, and his associates in this body. 

Senator Shively was a member of many of the im- 
portant committees of this body, the most notable of 
which were the Committees on Finance, Foreign Rela- 
tions, and Pensions. He was chairman of the Committee 
on Pensions, and the next in rank to the chairman of the 
Committee on Foreign Relations and occasionally acted 
as chairman of that committee. His service in the Senate 
was marked by the same industry and energy that had 
characterized him in the House of Representatives. He 



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was serious, conscientious, painstaking, and thorough in 
his work and was a disbeliever in mere perfunctory serv- 
ice. While not an orator in the common acceptation of 
the term, he was nevertheless a good and ready debater, 
who could give and take blows. 

While it was not my privilege to hear him on the stump, 
from what I know of him I can well imagine that he was 
a strong and effective campaign speaker, whose words, 
coming from an honest and sincere heart and delivered 
without any flourish or blare, went home to the heads and 
hearts of his hearers. It is the man back of the word that 
makes the word effective and impressive. It seemed to 
me as though his early struggles had given a color and 
tone to the entire make-up of his life. There was some- 
thing intensely human and sympathetic about him. 
Here in the Senate, as among his neighbors at home, he 
was always the plain, bluff Ben Shively, without any 
frills and without an eye on the reporters' gallery. He 
seemed to be as proud of the fact that he had once run a 
thrashing machine in Minnesota as of the fact that he was 
one of the political leaders of his State and a prominent 
Member of this body. 

He was a man of high character, honest, fearless, and 
brave — a man in whom his party had implicit confidence, 
and a man whom we all could trust. " Ben Shively's " 
word was current and good among all who knew him, 
here and in Indiana. That State has furnished our coun- 
try with a number of great statesmen, ranking with the 
foremost in the entire Nation. While the deceased Sena- 
tor could not perhaps be rated with the foremost of these, 
he was, nevertheless, near them, and as near the heart of 
the people of his State as any of them, typical of the 
brawn and brain, the soul and the heart, of the great body 
of the people of his State. Friend and brother, we bid 
thee a sorrowful and final farewell ! 



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Address of Mr. Stone, of Missouri 

Mr. President: My affection for Benjamin F. Shively 
was so deep and personal and my bereavement at his 
sad, untimely end is so poignant that I would prefer to sit 
silent to-day. I say this because when I stand at the grave 
of one I loved and whose memory is very dear to me 
mere words become as sounding brass, empty and com- 
fortless. At such a time, except for the hope we have 
about things shadowed in the mysteries of the great be- 
yond, there is little in speech to soothe or inspire. True, 
this beautiful hope to which we cling does soften the 
blow, and there is inspiration in the example of a great 
life, but the profound regret which grips the heart goes 
on to the end with little surcease of sorrow. When I 
stand in the presence of beloved dead my heart calls more 
for meditation and the tribute of silence than for public 
utterance. And yet, in the circumstances of this ceremony 
I feel constrained to join with others here and speak a 
gentle word or two about my friend who is gone. 

Mr. Shively was a man of high ideals. There was noth- 
ing small, much less mean, about him. He was in- 
capable of littleness. lie was kindly, but firm; genial, 
but not fulsome; frank, but reserved; loyal, but not boast- 
ful; clean in mind and heart, but human and considerate; 
fearless as any knight who ever poised a spear, yet gentle 
as a woman; intellectual in a high degree, endowed with 
great powers of analysis and with comprehensive mental 
scope, he was modest and unpretentious. In the full 
vigor of his strength, before the wasting came, he stood 
as a king among men and made a superb and pleasing 
picture to look upon. I shall not say that we may not 



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see his like again, but this I do say, that all in all there 
never lived a more manly man. 

His public life, although cut short by fate with seem- 
ing cruelty, covered many years of distinguished service. 
He was a marvel of studious industry and profoundly 
conscientious in all he did. When he was at the helm 
we knew the pilot was fit to steer the ship. His work will 
stand as a shining monument to his fine intellect, his 
patient toil, and his stainless patriotism. 

But he is gone. Never again will we feel the pressure 
of his hand or behold the flash of his eye or the smile 
upon his lips. He has gone from the transitory scenes of 
mortal life into a sphere of nobler activities. He has trod 
the unlit path that most men dread and passed on through 
the gateway leading into the light beyond. Of one thing 
I am sure — that no man ever entered upon this starless 
pathway with braver heart, and few have better deserved 
the welcoming song of the Angelic Choir as they stepped 
from the darkness into the sweet sunshine of the eternal 
Summer Land. And thus I part from dear " Old Ben " 
with this salutation — Hail and farewell! 



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Address of Mr. Smoot, of Utah 

Mr. President: To all those who enjoyed the privilege 
of knowing the late Benjamin F. Shively, a Senator from 
the great State of Indiana, the best tribute to his memory 
is an unblemished narrative faithfully describing his rare, 
qualities of character and intellect, as has been done so 
splendidly by the speakers preceding me. They have por- 
trayed him as he was in life, yet his own works speak more 
eloquently for him than words of mine can do. I served 
with him for a number of years on the Committee on Pen- 
sions of the Senate and learned of his sympathy and 
friendship for all those who offered their lives for the 
preservation of the Union. He never failed to speak or 
vote for a proper recognition by the Government of the 
services of the veterans of the Civil War. 

His eloquence, his energy, his personal magnetism, and 
honesty made him a leading and interesting figure upon 
this floor. To my mind the most marked characteristic 
of this worthy man may be summed up in the simple 
expression, " He was an honest man." By honesty I mean 
more than a sense of obligation designated as commercial 
honor; I mean more than a mere sense of duty to obey law 
and to discharge legal obligations. That is superficial 
honesty; that is honesty which springs of policy, and may 
be forced by intellectual recognition of its advantages. 
Beal honesty is a gift of God worked out in those infinite 
processes which compose the law of heredity, and under 
all circumstances, under all environments they will work 
out true results. Benjamin F. Shively was a man of such 
honesty; a man inherently honest, as every man who 
knew him must testify. In his public life no person 
would have dared by any form of allurement even in the 
remotest degree to attempt to influence him in the dis- 
charge of his public service. 

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He was called to the beyond in the prime of life, leaving 
many dear friends who were grieved by the loss of one of 
the best and most loyal friends, one of the most genial of 
our distinguished public men. He left to his family more 
than a princely fortune could bring, because he left be- 
hind what all right-thinking men must admit was a suc- 
cessful life, such as thousands of American boys com- 
pelled to rely upon their own resources can look to as 
a model, and demonstrating the fact that fortune and 
business success are open to all in this our beloved 
America, and may be achieved without wronging a single 
soul. 

Our hearts go out in sympathy to the immediate family 
and relatives of the late Senator. May the Lord be their 
comfort ! It is but natural that they should feel the pangs 
of parting, yet there is solace in the knowledge that he was 
a child of God, and that though he has passed out of view 
for a short time he still lives and is but waiting for his 
loved ones to rejoin him under more favorable conditions. 
Let us rejoice in the thought thus expressed by a poet: 

There is no death ! The heavens may fall, 

The flowers fade and pass away, 
They only wait through wintry hours 

The coming of the May. 
There is no death ! An angel form 

Walks o'er the earth with silent tread, 
He bears our best loved ones away, 

And then we call them " dead." 
Born into that undying life, 

They leave us but to come again. 
With joy we welcome them the same, 

Except in sin and pain. 

And ever near us, though unseen, 

The dear immortal spirits tread, 
For all the boundless universe 

Is life — there are no dead. 



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There is no greater tribute I can pay him than to remind 
those who loved him that he was an affectionate father, a 
devoted husband, a faithful friend, a fearless and con- 
scientious public servant. In short, a remarkable national 
character and a good man. 



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Address of Mr. Williams, of Mississippi 

Mr. President: For one reason at any rate, I would 
prefer to have gone to that "bourn whence no traveler 
returns" before Senator Shively went. I would have had 
a nobler eulogist in him than he has in me. 

I shall speak to-day only of the salient and essentially 
chief character-making element that went to the make-up 
of the man. 

This prevailing characteristic was utter personal unsel- 
fishness. He loved honor much, honors somewhat, money 
not at all. He dwelt, in thought, less upon his private 
affairs than upon the public business — the res publico, the 
Republic. It was his thought, his study, his conversation, 
almost his life. This unselfishness kept bis purse empty, 
but it made his character noble, and kept him unstained 
in motive. 

If he did not " love his enemies " — a hard saying of the 
gentle Nazarene — he at least loved his friends and served 
them better than lie loved and served himself. 

It was said of the French noblesse of the ancient regime 
that they had proved in a thousand ways and in a thou- 
sand places that they " knew how to die like gentlemen," 
but never that they " knew how to live like men." Ben 
Shively proved that he knew how to do both — he did 
both. 

From that part of the duration of things which we call 
Time, and in which we live here, many loving hands are 
extended unavailingly to him where he stands in that 
other part of it, known as Eternity — my own hand — I, 
sorrowing, among them. 



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Some day he and the other friends who have "crossed 
over (he river " will beckon us over, and we, obeying 
their call, with vague dread of things unseen and there- 
fore unknown, will go; and the handclasps will come, 
the spirit of them to endure forever. 

Until then may the grace of God make us more like him 
in this — that we may be less selfish, live and think less 
self-centered, and be therefore better fitted to invoke, in a 
spirit resigned to life and death alike, the final blessing 
upon him of the Church Universal. Requiescat in pace. 



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Address of Mr. Watson, of Indiana 

Mr. President: I have not committed to paper any re- 
marks for this occasion, because my observations will be 
personal rather than general. 

The traits and characteristics of this noble son of In- 
diana have been so clearly set forth by those who have 
preceded me that but for the fact that I am his successor 
I should wholly refrain from speech on this occasion. 

Mr. President, as the Senator from Missouri [Mr. Stone] 
so feelingly said but a few moments ago, " Senator 
Shively is gone." We all realize the full significance 
of this fact. We know that our pleasing words do not 
reach his waiting ears; we know that he is as far beyond 
the reach of our short arms as are the stars that shine 
above us in the sky at night; we know that he sleeps now 
in the cold and narrow house, indifferent alike to the 
careless shallows and the tragic deeps of human life; 
and therefore it is for the living and not the dead that 
these exercises are of surpassing moment. 

At his bier all tongues were silent, save those of praise; 
all lips were mute, save those of love; that were sufficient 
eulogy for his gentle soul; and unless by reciting the 
traits of character he so splendidly exemplified and which 
we so highly praise wherever manifested, we ourselves 
are impressed with the necessity of embodying those 
same virtues in our lives and characters, then these exer- 
cises are but sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. 

Born, as the senior Senator from Indiana [Mr. Kern] 
has said, in 1857, he was 8 years old at the close of the 
Civil War; hence the fierceness of that great strife must 
have impressed itself upon his plastic mind. I am led 

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to this belief because Senator Shively was a natural poli- 
tician. He had great aptitude for the discussion of public 
questions and an uncommon desire to engage in public 
debate. This inclination was doubtless greatly increased 
by reason of the long struggle over reconstruction that 
followed the Civil War. His boyhood was lived in that 
atmosphere, and his young manhood was developed under 
these conditions. First in the common school, then in the 
college at Valparaiso, then as a school-teacher, and after- 
wards in the law school at Ann Arbor, he constantly devel- 
oped the natural tendency of his mind for public debate, 
until even in those earlier days he became a master of 
forensic speech. 

I well recall the first time I ever heard of him. I was in 
college, and it was in 1884. Maj. William H. Calkins was 
nominated that year by the Republican Party for the 
governorship of Indiana. Being at that time a Member 
of the other branch of Congress, his nomination created 
a vacancy. Mr. Shively, then but 26 years of age, or only 
one year over the required constitutional limit, was nomi- 
nated by the Democrats as their candidate in the succeed- 
ing contest. He conducted that campaign with such skill, 
such ability, and such assiduity and displayed such re- 
markable characteristics as a debater and a public speaker 
that he won in that memorable contest, although the dis- 
trict was normally Republican, and I can well remember 
that the victory achieved under those circumstances 
presaged the overthrow of the Republican Party at the 
final election. 

He was reelected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty- 
second Congresses; and although he entered that body at 
the age of 26, he took a leading part from the beginning, 
and an examination of the Record will disclose that Rep- 
resentative Shively was prominent in all the debates 
relating to the protective tariff system and the Reed rules, 

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which were then for the first time being practiced by the 
House. It was in this body that he made for himself a 
reputation as a tariff debater and a foremost champion 
of free trade, and I believe him to be the ablest exponent 
of that doctrine that Indiana has produced for many 
years. 

In 1892 he declined a renomination, although unani- 
mously tendered him, and, as he afterwards said to me, 
" because of the irksomeness of the task of being a Mem- 
ber of Congress " and " because it destroyed systematic 
reading," for if there was anything of which Senator 
Shively was passionately fond it was systematic reading. 
He was by nature a scholar. He roamed at large in all the 
fields of literature; he plucked its choicest flowers, and in 
the ample recesses of his memory stored them away to 
bring them forth on future occasions to please and charm, 
for he was ever an omniverous reader. 

But his people were not content to permit him to re- 
main in quietude, and in 1896 brought him forth to be- 
come the candidate of his party for the governorship of 
Indiana. Being myself in Congress at that time, I remem- 
ber that I heard him with great interest in that campaign. 
He was a superb man physically, with a splendid head, 
well poised on broad shoulders. He was blessed with a 
resonant and resounding voice, rich and mellifluous. He 
had an ample vocabulary not only of Anglo-Saxon words 
but also of Latin derivatives, and the cogency of his 
thought, clothed in beautiful language, made him a most 
formidable antagonist in any campaign. 

I recall that in 1896, in advocating the free-silver doc- 
trine of that year, he was, in my judgment, as Senator 
Kern has so well said, the foremost champion in the State 
of Indiana of that cause. He was defeated in that cam- 
paign, but defeat did not dishearten him. In fact, no con- 
tingency ever appalled him, for he was a man not only of 



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titanic mold but of indomitable will, and I did not know 
him to be discouraged at any time, even in the midst of 
failing health and waning power. 

In 1903 he was the caucus nominee of his party in the 
legislature for the United States senatorship, being pitted 
in that contest against Senator Albert J. Beveridge, then a 
candidate for reelection. In 1905 he was again the caucus 
nominee of the Democratic Party for the senatorship, that 
race being against Charles Warren Fairbanks, then a 
candidate for reelection. In both of these contests he was 
beaten, but his consent to become a candidate showed 
first his fealty to his party, and secondly, his willingness 
to sacrifice himself even in a fruitless contest. 

In 1909 he was elected to the United States Senate. Of 
his service here you have already heard, and all of you 
are more familiar with it than am I, and of that I shall 
not speak. 

My intimate acquaintance with Senator Shively began 
when I was elected a member of the board of trustees of 
the State University of Indiana, of which body he was 
president for many years. For six years I retained mem- 
bership, afterwards resigning because of the pressure of 
other duties, but in that six years I learned to know the 
man intimately, to lake his intellectual and moral measure, 
to assess his real value, and it was at that time that I came 
to the conclusion that he was indeed a masterful man, 
intellectually and morally— a man of the loftiest ideals, 
a man of the purest life, a man of the finest and most 
enviable traits of character. I have known him on many 
an occasion to read through the night propped up in bed. 
He was a passionate lover of history and of fiction and of 
poetry, and many nights down in the university town of 
Bloomington I have sat with him and discussed all the 
questions that nun discuss on occasions of that character. 
He was a most interesting conversationalist; he told a 
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story well and liked one; and yet his conversation was 
not by any means of a frivolous nature, except on rare 
occasions when men drop into the frivolous naturally, 
but his talk was rather of politics and of political opin- 
ions and of the movement of nations and the true ideals of 
life. 

The one thing which always impressed me as being 
Senator Shively's dominant idea in the realm of politics 
was his firm belief in the equality of men. He never wav- 
ered in his adherence to the fundamental doctrine of the 
Declaration of Independence, that all men are created 
equal, and he was never so eloquent and never so power- 
ful as when he was expounding that doctrine to the people 
or even to an individual. The finest speech I ever heard 
him make was on the occasion of the celebration of a 
great fraternal order. It was there that he connected in 
a marked manner the material interests of life with the 
sentiments that warm the heart and exalt the soul, and 
showed that the man, intellectually and morally, was a 
type of orator and of statesman that might well be envied 
by any man. 

So he lived and so he died. Only on one occasion, as I 
recall, was there any conversation between us about the 
future, but I remember that at one time, along about the 
midnight hour, while he was in waning health, he said to 
me, "What is the difference what becomes of any one 
I man? We come here, play our little part on the stage, 
and pass away, and that is all." I said to him, " But is 
that all? " And I vividly remember that he turned to me 
and said, " Well, if I did not believe in a future, or, rather, 
in a continued existence, I should be of all men most 
miserable." 

Thus he lived in that hope of another world, and he 
died in the belief of immortality; and well may we say 
on this occasion, my friends, that Senator Shively's life 



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was a model for any young man desiring to come into suc- 
cess in our American Republic, for the elements so mixed 
in him that all the world might stand up and say of him, 
" Intellectually and morally, this was a man." 

Mr. Kern. Mr. President, it is greatly to be regretted 
that the distinguished Senator from Arizona [Mr. Smith], 
who was to have delivered an address on this occasion, 
is by reason of ill health prevented from taking part in 
these exercises. 

The bond of friendship which attached Senators Smith 
and Shively to each other was as strong as that which 
bound Damon to Pythias, or Jonathan to David. It had 
existed for more than a quarter of a century and in- 
creased in strength as the years passed by, so that when 
Senator Shively died the grief of Senator Smith was as if 
his' own brother had passed away. His regret at not being 
able to be here to-day, to pay a tribute of respect to the 
memory of his dead friend, is only equaled by that of his 
fellow Senators, who know of the intimate personal rela- 
tions to which I have referred. 

The Vice President. Without objection, the resolutions 
heretofore presented by the Senator from Indiana will be 
unanimously adopted. 



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Tuesday, March U, 1916. 
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Waldorf, one of its 
clerks, announced that the Senate had passed the follow- 
ing resolutions: 

Resolved, That the Senate has heard with deep regret and pro- 
found sorrow of the death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, late 
a Senator from the State of Indiana. 

Resolved, That a committee of 12 Senators be appointed by the 
Vice President to take order for superintending the funeral of the 
late Senator. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect his remains be 
removed from Washington to South Bend, Ind., for burial, in 
charge of the Sergeant at Arms, attended by the committee, who 
shall have full power to carry these resolutions into effect. 

Resolved, That the Secretary communicate these resolutions to 
the House of Representatives. 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, the Senate do now adjourn. 

That in compliance with the foregoing, the Vice Presi- 
dent had appointed as said committee Mr. Kern, Mr. Smith 
of Arizona, Mr. Williams, Mr. Clapp, Mr. Johnson of 
Maine, Mr. Kenyon, Mr. Swanson, Mr. James, Mr. Suther- 
land, Mr. Martine of New Jersey, Mr. Phelan, and Mr. 
j Smith of Georgia. 

j Mr. Dixon. Mr. Speaker, I ask consideration of the fol- 
lowing resolution. 
The Speaker. The Clerk will report it. 
The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 172 
Resolved, That the House has heard with profound sorrow of the 
death of the Hon. Benjamin F. Shively, a Senator of the United 
States from the State of Indiana. 

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Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased 
Senator. 

Resolved, That a committee of 20 Members be appointed, on the 
part of the House, to join the committee appointed on the part of 
the Senate to attend the funeral. 

The resolutions were agreed to. 

The Speaker. The Chair appoints the following com- 
mittee. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

Mr. Barnhart, Mr. Dixon, Mr. Adair, Mr. Cox, Mr. Cullop, Mr. 
Cline, Mr. Moss of Indiana, Mr. Rauch, Mr. Gray of Indiana, Mr. 
Morrison, Mr. Lieb, Mr. Woods of Indiana, Mr. Moores of Indiana, 
Mr. Igoe, Mr. Treadway, Mr. Austin, Mr. Lafean, Mr. Smith of 
Michigan, Mr. Dunn, and Mr. Tilson. 

The Speaker. The Clerk will report the other resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

Resolved, That as a further mark of respect this House do now ! 
adjourn. 

The resolution was agreed to; accordingly the House (at 
5 o'clock and 40 minutes p. m.) adjourned until to-mor- 
row, Wednesday, March 15, 1916, at 12 o'clock noon. 

Wednesday, March 15, 1916. 
The Chaplain, Rev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the'; 
following prayer: 

We come to Thee, O God, our heavenly Father, to renew 
our faith and confidence in Thee and in the overruling of 
Thy providence in the affairs of men that our spirituals 
life may be enlarged. Religion is the life of God in the 
soul. We pray for that life that our work may be in-j 
creased in the things that make for the eternal good of] 
man. We bless Thee for every true and noble life whose j 
work has added to the sum of human happiness, touched 
by the death of one who has honored his life by an honor- 



Proceedings in the House 



able service in the chosen field of his endeavors. Comfort 
his friends and family by the precious promises in the 
continuity of life that they may look forward with bright 
hopes and anticipations to a life beyond the confines of 
earth, where the joys of existence shall be increased and 
the soul shall find its full fruition in a joyful service in 
Thee, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen. 

Thursday, March 16, 1916. 

The Speaker. Five of the members whom the Chair ap- 
pointed on the committee to attend the funeral of Senator 
Shively can not go. They are Messrs. Adair, Austin, 
Gray, Cox, and Treadway. In lieu of those gentlemen 
the Chair appoints Messrs. Ferris, Bailey, Steele of Iowa, 
Dyer, and Walsh. 

Thursday, February 8, 1917. 

Mr. Dixon. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that 
Sunday, February 18, be set apart for eulogies on the life 
and character of the late Senator Shively, of Indiana. 

The Speaker. The gentleman from Indiana asks unani- 
mous consent that Sunday, the 18th of February, 1917, be 
set apart for eulogies on the life and character of the late 
Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of Indiana. Is there objec- 
tion? [After a pause.] The Chair hears none. 

Sunday, February 18, 1917. 

The House met at 12 o'clock noon and was called to 
order by Mr. Jacoway as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Chaplain, Bev. Henry N. Couden, D. D., offered the 
following prayer: 

Infinite Spirit, Father-Soul, Thy blessing be upon us to 
fit us for the sacred duty of the hour, a time-honored cus- 
tom, a precious memorial dear to our hearts. Two great 
men, public servants, Senators of the United States, have 
been called from labor to refreshment, from earth to 



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heaven. Ours the loss, theirs the gain; ours the sorrow, 
theirs the joy; ours the hope, theirs the reality; ours the 
struggle, theirs the victory. May the unbroken continuity 
of life which has come down to us out of the past, sung 
by poets, taught by sages, prophets, and seers, reenforced 
by the glorious resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth, comfort 
those who knew and admired them and solace those who 
were bound to them by the ties of love and kinship; that 
the heart may cease to ache and tears to flow. 

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; 
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; 
Thy fate is the common fate of all, 
Into each life some rain must fall, 
Some days must be dark and dreary. 

So teach us to wait with patience till the veil shall be 
rent asunder and Thy ways be made plain; and we will 
ascribe all praise to Thee now and evermore. Amen. 

Mr. Dixon took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
special order. 

The Clerk read as follows : 

On motion of Mr. Dixon, by unanimous consent, 

Ordered, That Sunday, February 18, 1917, be set apart for 
addresses upon the life, character, and public services of Hon. 
Benjamin F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 

Mr. Barnhart. Mr. Speaker, I send to the Clerk's desk a 
resolution, and move its adoption. 

The Speaker pro tempore. The Clerk will report the 
resolution. 

The Clerk read as follows: 

House resolution 513. 

Resolved, That the business of the House be now suspended, 
that opportunity may be given for tributes to the memory of Hon. 
Benjamin F. Shively, late a Senator from the State of Indiana. 



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Resolved, That as a particular mark of respect to the memory of 
the deceased, and in recognition of his distinguished public 
career, the House, at the conclusion of the exercises of this day, 
shall stand adjourned. 

Resolved, That the Clerk communicate these resolutions to the 
Senate. 

Resolved, That the Clerk send a copy of these resolutions to the 
family of the deceased. 



The resolution was agreed to. 



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Address of Mr. Rarnhart, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: The subject of our tribute to-day, Senator 
Benjamin Franklin Shively, was a lifelong resident of 
the congressional district I represent, and I knew him well 
as friend, citizen, and statesman. And knowing much of 
his scholastic and realistic inclinations as I do, I beg your 
indulgence while I give some extracts from Gray's Elegy, 
which he frequently quoted, as illustrative of his reflective 
moods and as basis for the panegyric to follow: 

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, 
The lowing herds wind slowly o'er the lea, 
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
And leaves the world to darkness and to me. 

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, 
And all the air a solemn stillness holds, 
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, 
And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. 

Th' applause of list'ning senates to command, 
The threats of pain and ruin to despise, 
To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, 
And read their history in a nation's eyes — 

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife 
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; 
Along the cool seo.uester'd vale of life 
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 

One morn I miss'd him on the custom'd hill, 
Along the heath, and near his fav'rite tree: 
Another came; nor yet beside the rill, 
Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he. 

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The next with dirges due in sad array 
Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. 
Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay 
Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. 

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, 

Heaven did a recompense as largely send : 

He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, 

He gained from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. 

No further seek his merits to disclose, 
Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, 
(There they alike in trembling hope repose) 
The bosom of his Father and his God. 

Such, Mr. Speaker, portrays the modest but eventful life 
of Senator Shively. If we can grasp the marvelous spec- 
tacle of the onward march of a farmer boy from the de- 
vout environ of an humble Dunkard home through col- 
lege, through the law, and through oratory to a foremost 
seat in his Nation's council, we have a graphic picture of 
the Senator whom we here honor in formal tribute. 

Others will speak of Senator Shively's biography spe- 
cifically, but I shall only refer to that phase of his life 
incidentally and as it weaves into his public career. Like 
most great men, he started from the farm, where so many 
fundamentals of strength and character are given to men 
and women. He was industrious and ambitious, and 
went from common school to college, from college to edi- 
torial chair, from editorial chair to the law, from the law 
to the lower House of Congress, and from the House to 
the Senate. Incidentally he was called to many high 
positions of leadership in the Democratic Party, having 
been candidate for governor of his State, chairman of his 
State delegation in national conventions, and so promi- 
nent in oratory and profound in statesmanship that he 
was frequently talked of by his party leaders as an avail- 
able candidate for both the Vice Presidency and the Presi- 

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Address of Mr. Barnhart, of Indiana 

dency. He voluntarily retired from Congress in 1892 
after a popular service, and later was three times the 
nominee of his party for United States Senator, elected 
twice, and served in that body with national distinction 
for nearly seven years, having been called hence with 
more than five years of his second term unexpired. In 
this latter service he was ranking member on the Com- 
mittee on Foreign Relations, and was frequently and 
safely consulted by President Wilson on the international 
troubles which beset our country. 

As an orator Senator Shively had a national reputation, 
was a foremost speaker in point of popularity in a dozen 
States of the Union, and in his own State there were re- 
quests for Shively from the people of every county in 
every campaign. This popularity was due to two charac- 
teristics of the man. One was his ripe familiarity with 
current public questions and his captivatingly eloquent 
gift of presenting his arguments, and the other was his 
uniform fairness to the opposition. 

It has been truthfully said of him that in all his life he 
never conducted a defensive campaign. His campaigns 
were aggressive. He scorned to misstate the position of 
his opponents; but having stated fairly the issue, no fact 
connected with, or consequences following, or conclusion 
inferable from such position escaped his attention. His 
knowledge of the science and philosophy of government 
was profound. He brought all questions to the test of 
organic principles, and with masterful analysis exposed 
the sophisms employed in defense of perverted power. 
His advocacy, always dignified, vindicated and strength- 
ened the cause of his political belief by placing it on solid 
ground and giving the highest and best reasons for its 
faith. And, furthermore, Mr. Shively always identified 
himself with the cause. When the candidate of his party 
he was never known in any speech to make a special ap- 

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peal for votes for himself. He employed all his power to 
advance the cause he represented and took his chances 
with the humblest man on the ticket. If he led his ticket, 
the fact was due to his engaging personality and the con- 
fidence he inspired by his freedom from personal offen- 
siveness in the discussion of public questions, and not to 
any effort by himself not common to the interests of all 
his associates. 

These admirable qualities of superior talent in both 
knowledge and argument were not alone the all of Sena- 
tor Shively's power. His towering physique, his classi- 
cal face, and his keen and penetrating eyes combined to 
make him a striking and impressive man, and, as his ac- 
quaintanceship grew, his rugged honesty and his sterling 
devotion to the cause of the masses gave him a public 
confidence that developed nation-wide proportions. 

But in all of his illustrious political career Senator 
Shively never approved so-called machine politics. In- 
stead, it was ever his concern that the sentiments of the 
rank and file should prevail. And so his leadership was 
never dictatorial nor mechanical. On the contrary, his 
power was in his genius to analyze the situation — discern 
the true condition of public opinion and then serve it. Of 
course, this ability and his poise served him well to make 
him a natural leader. Without being presumptuous or 
demonstrative, his political bearing was at all times dig- 
nified and commanding. He was retiring rather than 
vain, and this was admirable to all who realize that 
vanity is generally the attribute of those who drift along 
the surface, for those who are profound are, as a rule, 
modest and unpretentious. 

Senator Shively was devoted to statesmanship and the 
political economy of his country. He never tired of delv- 
ing into history and biography for inspiration and into 
philosophy and tradition for his faith. He was painstak- 

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ing and deliberate in the consideration of every problem 
that confronted him, and this analytical digest of pending 
questions always gave him mastery in championing con- 
structive issues and benevolent policies. And not only 
was he a thinker and an orator of rare gift, but as a writer 
he was captivating as well. His sentences were faultlessly 
constructed and yet revealed no labored effort to detract 
from their elegant diction and captivating logic. Like the 
philosophers and orators of historic fame, the products of 
his resourceful mind and heart were masterpieces of com- 
posite English and wisdom. 

Personally Senator Shively was always the center of 
attraction in any assembly of people. Versatile in his 
intellectual accomplishments, amiable in presence, and 
generous to a fault, he easily adjusted himself to any en- 
viron. This made for a personal following as wide as his 
acquaintanceship. But he did not have multitudes of 
confidential associates. Instead, he confined close per- 
sonal relations to a very few men, and it was often said 
of him that his most intimate and helpful friends were his 
books. Among the few who knew him best was Hon. 
John B. Stoll, one of Indiana's most illustrious journalists, 
and in a recent observation on Senator Shively's person- 
ality he described him as one as to whose generosity there 
could be no diversity of opinion. He was big hearted, 
kindly, and self-sacrificing. Had he been a Colossus, no 
want brought to his attention would have been turned 
away unsatisfied. Often did he amplify the adage that it 
is more blessed to give than to receive. The warmth 
with which his friends always rallied around him strik- 
ingly attested his intrenchment in their admiration and 
devotion. And the popular esteem in which he was held 
in his home city was strongly exemplified on the day of 
his funeral, when thousands of his acquaintances lined 
the streets of South Bend in solemn mien, which bespoke 

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their pride in an illustrious and beloved fellow citizen, 
and their sorrow incident to his eternal leave-taking. 

Was he inspired? Yes; by the help of a devoted, ac- 
complished wife and the divine endowment of two manly 
sons and a dutiful daughter. I believe the best impulses 
of any man's life radiate around his family circle and gain 
strength and character in his home. And at no time did 
Senator Shively's parental courage more richly bless his 
family than in his declining days, when his cheerfulness 
and resignation made him the same soulful companion 
that characterized the most thrilling triumphs of his re- 
markable career. He played well the part of a patriotic 
genius; he served well his country's call. 

But for Frank Shively, as we so familiarly knew him, 
life's pilgrimage is ended, and the mystery of life and 
death is as complex to us who are left as when time began 
and the stars sang together in paeans of praise to the 
Omnipotent. And those of us who have suffered the pangs 
of unspeakable sorrow when death's messenger has ruth- 
lessly called our loved ones from us can only know that 
they are in their eternal home where, and only where, the 
mystery is unfolded, a mystery that neither philosophy 
nor science solves, a mystery which only the consolation 
of a religious faith can in any degree clarify. We can 
explain by natural and scientific research almost anything 
but the problem of human life and the possibilities and 
probabilities of the hereafter. And these are comprehen- 
sible only by those blessed by the comforts of a living 
faith in Him who doeth all things well. 

Here on earth we may accomplish much, and it is our 
duty to give all the assistance we can to the world's work. 
Personal satisfaction and consolation teach us all that 
such is our mission. And unless we contribute our share 
to the discharge of life's real responsibilities, watchman, 
what of the night? After we have accumulated wealth. 



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after we have surrounded ourselves with home and family 
and friends, after we have achieved distinction in scholas- 
tic and social endeavor, and after we have stood in the 
leadership of men in social or political power — after all 
these and probably many more accomplishments there 
will come a day for all of us when, weary of it all, we will 
lie feverishly and fretfully on a couch that has furnished 
us refreshing rest in all of the years gone by; we will be 
surrounded by the family and friends that have been our 
mainstay of strength always; we will be attended by the 
best medical skill our abundance of money can employ; 
and in the midst of it all when' it would naturally be ex- 
pected that we would continue to depend on these earthly 
agencies for help, we will turn our backs upon it all and, 
reaching a palsying hand out into space, we will beseech- 
ingly implore: 

Lead, kindly Light. 



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Mr. Speaker: In the order of nature, which moves with 
unerring certainty in obedience with fixed laws, Senator 
Benjamin F. Shively has gone to that repose we call 
death. In the midst of his labors, while yet a young man, 
by no means having reached the zenith of his powers, 
crowned with honors meritoriously bestowed, with a 
future illumined with lights of promise, this friend and 
colleague of ours was suddenly stricken by death. Any- 
thing we may add will not add anything to the fame of 
our deceased colleague, friend, and coworker that the 
people of Indiana who honored him most will not now 
freely record. 

To me this is a solemn occasion to meet my colleagues 
here upon the floor of the House, the scene of so many 
activities and victories won by him, in commemoration 
of his life and death. It was not my pleasure to know 
him intimately until he became a Member of the Senate. 
I knew of him prior to that date, but it had not been my 
pleasure to come in close touch and contact with him. 
His name was a familiar household word to the citizens 
of the State of Indiana and to the Nation long before he 
entered the Senate. He was born on the 20th of March, 
1857, of poor, humble, yet honorable parents. His road 
to success in life was by no means an easy one. It was 
beset with stones, confronted with many difficulties; but 
possessed of a strong physique, endowed with a keen 
and piercing intellect, he moved forward, aided by an 
indomitable will, succeeded in reaching a commanding 
position in the national councils of the people. He was 
not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Inured in 

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early life to hardship, toil, and drudgery, his very sur- 
roundings furnished the means, the ladder by which he 
succeeded in making life a success. Left an orphan early 
in life, he was compelled to depend on his own resources, 
and resolving to win in the struggle of life he set about 
to acquire a fundamental education to arm and equip 
himself for the struggle. 

He was graduated from the Northern Indiana Normal 
School in Indiana and, later completed a course at our 
university at Bloomington, Ind. He elected to follow the 
law as a life profession, and to equip himself in this work 
he graduated at the law department at Ann Arbor, Mich., 
with credit and honor to himself and the university as 
well. 

Senator Shively had not only a brilliant but a pene- 
trating and analytical mind. While recognized as a sound 
lawyer by the legal profession of the State, if he had not 
been caught by the lure of politics and devoted his time 
and energy to his chosen profession no doubt he would 
have ranked as one of the leading lawyers of the Nation. 
He was a student, a historian, as conversant with ancient, 
medieval, and modern history as a child is with the alpha- 
bet. He lived among the classics of the past, and through 
his intimate knowledge of history he was able to blend 
the past, present, and the future into a harmonious whole. 

To him history, events, and epochs were constantly 
repeating themselves, and his erudite knowledge of the 
past to him was a signboard unerringly pointing the way 
to the future. 

A profound philosopher, able through his strong brain 
to follow a proposition from its first to its last analysis, 
and after he dissected, criticized, and analyzed a proposi- 
tion it was the last say on the subject. Through his keen, 
penetrating intellect he quickly separated the chaff from 
the wheat, and when done few there were who dared 
dispute with him on the finished product of his thought. 

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Senator Shively was in no sense a man that might be 
called a " trimmer " or " policy man "; in no sense a man 
willing to follow the lines of least resistance. Never afraid 
to rush in where angels dared not tread, he traveled 
along the lines from the known to the unknown; reason- 
ing from cause to effect, he was able to arrive at certain 
definite conclusions on a proposition where he applied 
the genius of his thought. 

Once having made up his mind that he was right, he 
was as unyielding as the rocks of Gibraltar. No power on 
earth could shake him in his views or make him yield a 
solitary point from what he thought to be right. In no 
sense a follower of public opinion, but always in advance 
of it, paving the way and molding public opinion himself 
as he moved onward and forward, always blazing the 
way, never waiting to have it blazed by others. 

He was a fluent talker, seldom dealt in high-sounding 
phrases, yet able to hold his audiences spellbound for 
hours at a time while discussing the most common sub- 
jects of economic life involving the existence of our 
country. 

He was elected to Congress in 1887 from the thirteenth 
Indiana congressional disti-ict, and voluntarily retired to 
private life to engage in the practice of law at his home 
in South Bend, Ind., in 1894; but the memorable cam- 
paign of 1896 called him to the front, this time as his 
party's candidate for governor of Indiana. After the 
most memorable and exciting campaign ever held in the 
State, barring none except that of 1860, he was defeated 
by a small majority, not because of any weakness on his 
part or lack of brilliancy, logic, or argument thrown into 
the campaign by him, but because the things to which his 
party was pledged went down to defeat. Every child 10 
years of age who heard his speeches and arguments in 



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that campaign will remember him until they reach their 
threescore and ten, or fourscore if by reason of strength 
they be permitted to live tbat long. 

Accepting defeat as magnanimously as he entered the 
contest, he again retired to the practice of law in his 
native city, but each campaign thereafter he was found 
on the hustings taking an active part in behalf of his 
party. 

He was a Democrat in principle, precept, and example. 
He believed in the Jeffersonian principles of government 
and never afraid under any and all circumstances to 
espouse and defend them under any and all circum- 
stances. Never a pessimist, always an optimist, a be- 
liever in the future triumph of these principles, and 
though he lived to see them defeated time and again, yet 
he firmly believed that time would vindicate them; that 
they would rise supreme and triumphant as the rule and 
doctrine not only of our Government but of all the world. 

At the Kansas City convention in 1900 he was offered 
the nomination for Vice President at the hands of his 
party, but declined this proffered honor. 

He reached the goal of his ambition in 1909 when 
elected by the legislature of the Slate of Indiana to repre- 
sent the State in the Senate of the United States, and was 
reelected to this commanding position in 1914. 

Some of the brightest men of our Nation have served 
our State in the United States Senate since Indiana took 
her place among the sister States of the Nation. During 
this time she has had her Lanes, her Whites, her Julians, 
her Voorhees, her Harrisons, and her Mortons, and a host 
of others, and along with these intellectual giants stands 
and will forever stand the name of Benjamin F. Shively 
as a monument of glory and an honor to the greatness of 
the intellectuality of the people of Indiana. 



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He soon took front rank in the Senate, meeting veteran 
legislators of many years' experience in open debate face 
to face. His opponents quickly learned that he was a foe- 
man worthy of their steel. Always courteous, both in pri- 
vate and in public life, never overaggressive but always 
able to defend himself and his position under any and all 
circumstances. His early education and training of mind 
peculiarly fitted him for a public career in life. His broad 
mind, his wide grasp of things made him master of the 
situation. He was especially strong on many of the great 
economic questions of the day, particularly the tariff and 
financial questions, the two fundamental problems on 
which the economic existence of all governments rest. 

I am not putting it too strongly when I say he was a 
complete master of the tariff question. By nature and 
training a firm believer in the equal rights of men en- 
gaged in the struggle of life, and believing that a high 
protective tariff favored the few as against the many 
and that it enabled the few to control and monopolize the 
natural resources of our Nation, to oppress the many for 
the benefit of the few, he became not only a bitter foe 
but an implacable enemy of all private monopolies and 
at the same time an able defender and a nation-wide 
champion of the rights of the individual man, and when- 
ever and wherever he assailed this unjust system of taxa- 
tion, whether in or out of Congress, he tore to shreds and 
tatters the argument of the advocates of monopoly. Many 
of his speeches and arguments on this subject will go 
down in history unanswerable, unassailed, because they 
were and are logically sound. 

Perhaps the crowning work of his life along this line 
was exemplified in the enactment of the Underwood 
tariff law. While it does not bear his name, yet every 
paragraph, every section, and every schedule in that law 
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that if this bill was given a chance that it would tear the 
mask from the face of monopoly and restore equal rights, 
equal opportunities to every man seeking to acquire and 
maintain his rights. 

He cared nothing about the trappings or the garments 
by which a proposition was clothed, but was constantly 
searching for the principle in it, and when he found it, 
if it squared itself with his ideals of right, he gave it 
earnest and loyal support. On the other hand, if it did 
not square itself with his ideals of right, he openly re- 
pudiated it at every opportunity hailing itself to him so 
to do. 

While Senator Shively had phenomenal success in life, 
there was nothing accidental about it. It came to him 
because he deserved it, because he worked for it, and 
because he had the ability and courage to possess it. He 
was elected among many ambitious men; not by any 
tricks of fate, not by a wheel of fortune, but because he 
possessed those qualities which make for greatness, brain 
power, energy, singleness of purpose, and indomitable 
courage to carry these traits of character into execution. 

There was nothing sentimental about it. His devotion 
to duty was his creed. Absolute and exact justice to all 
and everybody alike was to him an obsession. Honesty 
and loyalty were the points by which he ever steered his 
course; true to his conscience, true to his oath, and true 
to his obligations to the people who called him to their 
service, were his guiding stars and the groundworks upon 
which he built for himself a monument more to be prized 
and more enduring than the marble slab which marks 
his final resting place. 

From this memorial exercise let us, the living, learn a 
new lesson that is as old as sacred history itself. The 
lesson is, " It is better to go to the house of mourning 
than to go to the house of feasting; that is the end of all 



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men; and the living will lay it to his heart." A sanctuary 
of sorrow is a crucible in which to purify the soul. It 
reminds us that in the midst of life there is death. Let 
the premature death of Senator Shively be a constant 
reminder to us of the serious meaning of that heavenly 
decree, " Man is born to die." Let us bear in mind that 
our days may be consumed with impotent and helpless 
grief or our life shrouded with dispiriting gloom, but 
rather that we may be impelled to make timely prepara- 
tion for the coming of the inevitable hour in which every 
man must surrender his own soul to God, who gave it. 

Husband, father, friend: 
Farewell. * * * 
All our hearts are buried with you. 
All our thoughts go onward with you. 
Come not back again to labor, 
Come not back again to suffer, 
Where the famine and the fever 
Wear the heart and waste the body. 
Soon our tasks will be completed, 
Soon your footsteps we shall follow, 
To the isles of the blessed, 

To the land of the hereafter. 
Mr. Barnhart took the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 



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Mr. Speaker: To-day we turn aside for a brief period 
from the active and laborious routine of legislation to 
pay our homage to the life, character, and public service 
of one of Indiana's most distinguished and illustrious 
sons, Hon. Benjamin Franklin Shively, late a Senator 
from the State of Indiana. 

It has been the custom here that those who have died 
in the congressional service of their country should have 
accorded them some permanent memorial of the personal 
regard and esteem felt by those who were associated 
with them in this service. Civilized nations have always 
mingled with their sorrow commemoration of the noble 
qualities of the dead. Benjamin F. Shively was born 
March 20, 1857, in St. Joseph County, Ind. He was the 
son of Rev. and Mrs. Joel Shively, natives of Pennsyl- 
vania, who had emigrated to the West and settled in 
St. Joseph County, Ind., in 1854. Religiously they were 
of the Dunkard faith. 

Young Shively's early life was spent upon his father's 
farm, and during the winter he attended school. He later 
attended the Nothern Indiana Normal School at Val- 
paraiso. During the years from 1875 to 1880 he taught 
school, six terms in all, and then engaged in journalism 
as the editor of a Greenback and Antimonopoly paper 
called The New Era. This paper was especially filled 
with editorials, and the young editor found pleasure in 
the preparation of strong and vigorous articles in support 
of Greenback and Antimonopoly doctrines and cham- 
pioned the cause with fervor, zeal, and unusual ability. 
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Party for Congress for the Forty-eighth Congress. In 
that contest William H. Calkins, the Republican candi- 
date, was elected over his Democratic opponent by 391 
plurality, while Mr. Shively received 1,943 votes. Mr. 
Calkins was nominated for governor in 1884. during the 
Forty-eighth Congress, and resigned October 20, 1884, 
to make that race. 

The Democrats had already nominated Hon. George 
Ford as their candidate for the Forty-ninth Congress, and 
a vacancy now existed for the unexpired term of the 
Forty-eighth Congress. Mr. Shively having made the 
race at the preceding election as the candidate of the 
Greenback Party, both the Republicans and Democrats 
eagerly reached out for him to become their candidate 
for the unexpired term. Reing much more in sympathy 
with the Democrats than the Republicans, he became the 
candidate of the Democratic Party for the unexpired 
term and with the expected and natural result that both 
Messrs. Ford and Shively were elected, the Greenbackers 
and Democrats supporting each of these candidates and 
each elected by over 2,000 majority. 

Mr. Shively entered Congress December 1, 1884, and 
served until March 4, 1885, and was the youngest Member 
in that Congress, being not quite 28 years of age. The 
Congressional Directory of that Congress in its biographi- 
cal sketch of Mr. Shively, and no doubt the data, at least, 
was furnished by him, states that he was elected as an 
Antimonopolist and that he was in 1883 secretary of its 
national organization. 

After his retirement from Congress he entered the law 
department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 
and graduated therefrom in 1886 and then began the 
practice of the law at South Bend, Ind. Mr. Shively was 
nominated as a Democrat in 1886 as candidate for the 
Fiftieth Congress, and was reelected to the Fifty-first and 

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Fifty-second Congresses. In the Fiftieth Congress he was 
a member of the Committees on Indian Affairs and In- 
dian Depredation Claims. In the following Congress he 
was continued as a member of the Committee on Indian 
Affairs and was also a member of the Committee on 
Banking and Currency. The work of this latter commit- 
tee was better suited to his taste and line of study. In the 
bitter contest for Speakership in the Fifty-second Con- 
gress he early espoused the cause of Mr. Crisp, who was 
elected and assigned him to membership on the Ways 
and Means Committee. He had given the subject of taxa- 
tion a special study and was thoroughly equipped for the 
work of that committee. Early in 1892 Mr. Shively pub- 
lished a letter to his constituency announcing that he 
would not again be a candidate and that he expected to 
retire from public life at the end of that term. He again 
entered into the practice of his profession, but he was 
deeply interested in public affairs and continued an 
active participant in political campaigns and party or- 
ganization. He served as city attorney of South Bend, as 
also attorney for the city school board. 

In 1892 he was offered a renomination to Congress, and 
again in 1894, but each time he refused, preferring to re- 
main in the practice of his chosen profession. In 1896 he 
was nominated by the Democratic Party as its candidate 
for governor, and made a vigorous and brilliant cam- 
paign. The political contest of that year was extremely 
bitter and stubbornly fought, but Mr. Shively not only 
endeared himself to the members of his own party but 
won the admiration and respect of all our people, but, 
with his party, was defeated by a small majority in the 
election. In 1906 he was again nominated for Congress, 
but was defeated in the election. In 1903 Mr. Shively 
received the complimentary vote of the Democratic mem- 
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he again was the Democratic nominee for the United 
States Senate, and received the votes of the Democratic 
members of the Indiana Legislature. 

In 1893 he was selected a trustee of Indiana State 
University, and remained trustee continuously thereafter 
until his death, being president of the board at that time. 

In 1909 he was selected by the caucus of Democratic 
members of the legislature on the twentieth ballot as their 
candidate for United States Senator, and later was elected 
by the legislature and took his seat March 4, 1909. In 
1914 he was reelected to the Senate by the popular vote, 
and was the first Senator from Indiana to be elected under 
the law for the election of Senators by the direct vote of 
the people. This election by popular vote was adjudged 
by him as the proudest event of his political life. During 
his service in the Senate he was a member of the Census 
Committee, chairman of the Pension Committee, mem- 
ber of the Committee on Foreign Relations, and also 
member of the Committee on Finance. 

As chairman of the Pension Committee he enthroned 
himself in the affections of the old soldiers of the country 
by his broad-minded, generous, and loyal service. No sol- 
dier ever had a firmer friend. 

He was acting chairman of the Foreign Relations Com- 
mittee during the period of our complications and trouble 
with Mexico and was the close adviser and confidant of 
the President during that period and was the spokesman 
of the administration on that subject upon the floor of 
the Senate. 

When the Underwood bill was sent to the Senate 
Mr. Shively, in committee, on the floor of the Senate, and 
in the conference meeting, was active and vigorous in up- 
holding the principles upon which said bill was con- 
structed. While not fully agreeing with all its many 
minor items, he was steadfast, earnest, and sincere in its 

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support and passage. From the beginning of his public 
career he made a specialty of the study of the tariff, and 
he became one of the recognized authorities on that sub- 
ject. There is hardly a place in Indiana where he has not 
discussed this question, and always with clearness and 
ability, and our people have marveled at the wide range 
of his information and admired his ability to present the 
same with such force and effectiveness. He was possessed 
of a strong mentality which enabled him to readily grasp 
and solve great problems. 

Senator Shively was sworn in at the beginning of the 
Sixty-fourth Congress but never returned to the Senate 
Chamber. The disease that finally terminated his career 
had been making steady inroad on his vitality and was 
regarded as necessarily a fatal one. No man made a more 
determined fight for life, and up to within a few weeks of 
his death he talked about work he would do when he re- 
gained his strength and health. When death finally ended 
his sufferings on March 14, 1916, and the sad news was 
flashed over the wires, there were countless deeply sad- 
dened firesides in the State that gave him birth and that 
had repeatedly showered high honors upon him. 

On June 19, 1889, he was married to Miss Emma Laura 
Jenks, the accomplished daughter of Hon. George L. 
Jenks, Solicitor General under President Cleveland. The 
devoted widow and three children survive him. 

Mr. Shively was endowed by nature with all the charms 
of a fine physical presence and with an intellectuality of 
the highest order. He was tall and graceful, with a hand- 
some face, an engaging countenance, a commanding and 
attractive address, and an orator whose messages were 
listened to attentively, and whose clear and persuasive 
logic enabled him to appeal to the judgment of his hear- 
ers. His speeches appealed to the judgment and not to 
the emotions. He dwelt in facts rather than fancies and 



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in reason rather than in high-sounding phrases. He was 
one of the most forceful, pleasing, and magnetic speakers 
who ever graced the political forum of our State. He was 
always serious in his speeches, seldom, if ever, relieving 
the same hy humor or anecdote, but they always bristled 
with facts and figures. 

He was loyal to his friends, steadfast in his friendships. 
At times subjected to bitter and unjust criticism himself, 
he never deserted a friend who was himself under fire 
when he felt that the fire was unfair and unjust, even 
though his loyalty might bring to himself added criticism. 
He knew that the penalty of public life was criticism and 
ingratitude, but he bore them bravely. When political 
friends sought his aid for preferment and place, he sought 
to give to each unprejudiced and friendly consideration. 
When one would seek to improve his own chances by the 
repetition of rumors or reflections against other candi- 
dates, that man invariably ruined his own chances for the 
place. Dealing with others on a high plane of fairness 
and justice he had no patience with those who adopted 
a different course. He was slow to make a promise, but 
when once made it was fulfilled if he had the power to 
make it good. 

Although a partisan in politics and holding firmly to the 
principles of his party, he was free from narrow partisan- 
ship and liberal and generous in granting to those with 
whom he differed the belief that their judgments were 
equally sincere and honest as his own. He was not one 
who was inclined to find fault with those with whom he 
differed. 

He was a politician in the highest and broadest sense of 
that term. A politician does not mean in its proper sense 
one whose aims and ambitions are solely selfish and who 
seeks only his own advancement without regard to means 
or method employed, but rather one who has an intense 



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interest in public affairs, fixed ideas as to politics and 
principles, ability to command respect and win the confi- 
dence of men, and who seeks power and place in the hope 
that he can be of larger service to his fellow man. With 
no thought other than the public good, with no ambition 
but to faithfully perform his duty, then the politician be- 
comes the safe legislator and statesman, and such was the 
man, the politician, and statesman, Benjamin F. Shively. 

In every relation of life he did his duty as an enlight- 
ened judgment dictated and as a quickened conscience ap- 
proved. In all his life, whatever position he occupied, as 
a teacher, a journalist, a lawyer, or a public official, never 
was the integrity of his conduct or the purity of his mo- 
tives questioned. He did not speak often in the Senate, 
but when he did he prepared his speeches with infinite 
care, study, and thought; his words were well chosen, his 
sentences carefully balanced, and his diction was perfect. 

Mr. Shively was never sensational or spectacular, 
neither was he vain or egotistical. He never spoke for 
the purpose of self-glory nor for the purpose of appearing 
in the public limelight. He never advertised himself nor 
posed and played for the galleries. He was modest and 
unassuming and had the complete confidence and respect 
of his colleagues. He was respected for his abilities and 
honored for his services. With dignity and with modesty 
he performed his labors, doing great things, but " unher- 
alded and unsung " by himself. In the committee room, 
where the real work of Congress is done, he made his great 
impression on legislation. 

Indiana has produced many distinguished men, and is 
proud of their records and achievements; she has had 
many illustrious public men and statesmen; she has given 
to the service of the Nation men whose services have not 
only honored them but reflected honor upon the State; 
she has given to the Senate Hendricks and Morton, Mc- 



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Donald and Turpie, Harrison and Voorhees, and now 
Shively is added to the list of our departed Senators 
whose services have shed a luster on our State and left 
their impress upon the Nation. 

It is impossible to state in formal phrase the many 
noble qualities of his heart and mind. He had no malice 
in his heart, no envy in his thoughts, and was always the 
same, always a gentleman in manner and in speech. I 
was a member of the committee appointed to attend his 
funeral, and I know the sincere grief felt by the people 
of his city and his State. The day of his funeral all busi- 
ness was suspended in every avenue of trade, and all 
sought to pay their last tribute to their departed friend 
and neighbor. As they honored him in life, they honored 
his memory after death by breathing the tenderest and 
most loving sentiments of affection and love. 

Heaven portions it thus — the old mystery dim — 
It is midnight to us; it is morning to him. 

These were the words written of a friend by Indiana's 
most gifted and beloved poet, James Whitcomb Riley. 

Mr. Dixon resumed the chair as Speaker pro tempore. 



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Address of Mr. Adair, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker : We are here to-day in compliance with a 
commendable and well-observed rule of this House to pay 
tribute to the life, character, and public service of Hon. 
Benjamin F. Shively, late a United States Senator from 
Indiana. 

I learned to know Senator Shively more than 30 years 
ago, when he first served as a Member of this House. 
I was a young man at that time, interested to some extent 
in the legislation of the country, and was a great admirer 
of Senator Shively and the course he pursued as a Mem- 
ber of Congress. I watched him with much interest, ad- 
mired the work he did here, and was indeed sorry when 
he decided not to be a candidate for reelection. I felt at 
that time that his services were needed in this body and 
that it was a loss to our State and to our Nation to have 
him retire from Congress. After leaving this body I met 
him occasionally, but my close acquaintance with him 
began in 1896, when he was a candidate for governor of 
our State. It was my pleasure and privilege to be with 
him considerably during that campaign. I spoke from 
the same platform with him at a number of places in the 
congressional district I have the honor to represent, and 
it was then I learned his true worth and his remarkable 
ability. In my humble opinion the most remarkable 
speeches ever made in the State of Indiana were made 
by Senator Shively in the campaign of 1896. I heard it 
said during that campaign that his speeches were too 
deep, or, to use the common phrase, that he shot over the 
heads of his audiences. But the consensus of opinion was 
that the speeches made by him upon the issues of that 
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campaign and upon the great questions confronting the 
American people at that time were the soundest and most 
convincing of any delivered in the State. He held the 
attention and won the admiration of all who heard him. 
After that campaign I met him many times, and our 
friendship ripened and grew as the years passed by. It 
was a deserved recognition when Indiana saw fit to send 
him to the Senate of the United States. When he was 
chosen to that position I knew he would do credit to him- 
self, to his party, and to the State of Indiana. He came 
to that body not as strong physically as he might have 
been, not as able as he had been in the past to render 
hard, arduous service; yet he contributed his part in the 
consideration of the great problems coming before Con- 
gress. He had been a Member of that body only a few 
weeks until you could hear it remarked among the mem- 
bership of the Senate that he was one of the most intel- 
lectual men of that body and the kind of a man who 
would have been chosen to do the most difficult task that 
could have been assigned to any Member of the United 
States Senate. 

He served his first term and the people of Indiana said, 
" Well done, thou good and faithful servant," and by 
popular vote of the people sent him back to that body for 
another six years. At the beginning of his second term 
his health was so undermined that he was not able physi- 
cally to meet the task before him. 

It is a fine thing to see a man battling against tremen- 
dous adversities of life. It is an inspiration to see a great 
soul endeavoring to overcome the moral and physical 
difficulties of the world. But to observe at close hand a 
man fighting for his life against such transcendent ob- 
stacles with supreme cheerfulness and rare courage will 
perhaps leave to you and to me a stimulus for the public 
good, a contribution to our official standards, greater than 
any forensic triumphs that may resound through this Hall. 
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Eloquence may be sometimes preserved by the records 
of this House; wit may here and there leave a shaft to be 
seen in after years; reason and exposition may cleave the 
clouds of our doubts; but I suspect I voice the inner con- 
science of the membership of the House when I observe 
that you and I are most helped in the discharge of our 
public duties by contact with a clean, lofty soul standing 
firm amidst racking pain and lowering clouds that gather 
about the end of the journey and knowing no hypocrisy 
and no cant. One may consider himself fortunate whose 
privilege it has been to serve and associate with such a 
character. 

Mr. Speaker, the future historian who writes the history 
of our Nation and of our lawmaking bodies will give a 
high place to the statesmanship and ability of Senator 
Shively. In his death the wife and children have lost a 
loving and faithful father, I have lost a good and true 
fi'iend, the State of Indiana an able, faithful, and con- 
scientious representative, and the Nation a statesman 
worth while. 



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Address of Mr. Wood, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: Plutarch has told us that— 

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate 
the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be 
numbered with mortals, he enters upon the heritage of a diviner 
life. 

It occurs to me that these words have a peculiarly 
fitting application in considering the passing away of 
Senator Shively. He was sick for a long time. Coura- 
geously did he hattle against the ravages of disease. By 
his sheer indomitable spirit was his life prolonged. He 
did not surrender. He fell fighting that mysterious foe 
we call death. Though a sufferer long, he was not weary 
of this life, and the fact that he was not weary of this 
life is the best evidence of his being prepared for the 
life hereafter. For it has been said that " a man is 
not quite ready for another world who is altogether tired 
of this." Therefore, I am of the opinion that if Senator 
Shively could speak to us to-day he would say, " Lament 
not and mourn not, but rejoice that I am enjoying the 
heritage of a diviner life." 

If there was any one evil that Senator Shively detested 
above another, it was sham or hypocrisy, and he possessed 
a rare faculty for detecting it. He religiously abstained 
from its practice throughout his life. Now that he is dead 
his friends will not do his memory the injustice of in- 
dulging it through the use of fulsome flattery. In life he 
made no attempt to make himself appear what he was 
not, and in passing he left a fame that needs no superficial 
laudation. He believed, like Warwick believed, that — 

Hypocrisy desires to appear, rather than to be, good; honesty, 
to be good rather than seem so. Fools purchase reputation by 
the sale of desert; wise men seek desert even at the hazard of 
reputation. 

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In consequence he was without ostentation, which is 
said to be the signal flag of hypocrisy. 

He was not a self-advertiser. He shrank from it as he 
would from a plague. It was hard indeed for a news- 
paper man to get anything from him that seemed to be 
in praise of himself or his accomplishment. He was 
content to be judged by his works rather than by words 
used to advertise his works, and right well did his works 
speak for themselves. They have made for him a place 
that is secure in the annals of the State that so signally 
honored him and in the Nation he served so long and well. 

He loved his friends and his friends loved him. He 
made friendships by the giving of friendship. His friend- 
ship was not " like the shadow of the morning, decreasing 
every hour," but it was " like the shadow of the evening, 
which strengthens with the setting sun of life." His was 
the friendship that is characteristic of broad minds. It 
overlooked the faults and frailties of his fellow men and 
remembered only their virtues. In turn he learned his 
virtues from his friends who loved him and who buried 
his faults in the sand. He was indeed an exemplar of 
Socrates, who said: 

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them 
sensible tokens of your love. It is well worth while to learn how- 
to win the heart of a man the right way. Force is of no use to 
make or preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught 
nor tamed but by kindness and pleasure. Excite them by your 
civilities and show them that you desire nothing more than their 
satisfaction; oblige with all your soul that friend who has made 
you a present of his own. 

The most precious jewels that we can possess in this 
life of trial are love and friendship. These were pos- 
sessed by Senator Shively, and he gave of them as freely 
as he received. 

Peace to his ashes. 



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Address of Mr. Cullop, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: It is said that death loves a shining mark. 
When death laid its cold and icy hand on Benjamin F. 
Shively it captured a shining mark. I first met Senator 
Shively in the notable campaign of 1896, when he was the 
candidate of the Democratic Party for governoi", waging 
one of the most active and able canvasses ever made in 
that State for a great office. 

He was a striking figure; tall, erect, large in stature, 
with a handsome face, of distinguished appearance, he 
attracted the audiences before whom he spoke and 
created enthusiasm not alone by the manner in which 
he spoke but by the unanswerable logic, the clear and 
convincing arguments he made before the people. 

The campaign of 1896 was one of the bitterest, perhaps, 
we have had in Indiana, a State of bitter political con- 
tests, and during my recollection of political campaigns 
in that State I never knew a candidate for governor who 
bore himself more nobly and with more grandeur than 
Benjamin F. Shively did in that great contest. Defeated 
as he was by a small majority, yet he came out of the 
contest stronger with the people of Indiana than he had 
ever been before. He was elected four times to a seat 
in the National House of Bepresentatives and twice a 
United States Senator from Indiana. These marks of 
distinction and of honor were not given to him by political 
intrigue but were given to him upon his merit. He was 
not the creature of machine politics; he was too independ- 
ent for that; but all the honors he received he won by 
his merit. He was strong with the people. They believed 
in him. He had their confidence, and, best of all, be it 

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said, he never betrayed it. This was the source of his 
strength. This was why he held the confidence of the 
people and why they rallied around his standard and bore 
it bravely to victory. In him they had a friend upon 
whom they could rely, a strong and sturdy advocate of 
every cause for the advancement of their welfare. 

Mr. Speaker, because of the evenly divided sentiment in 
politics in Indiana it has been blessed in the United States 
Senate by some of the greatest minds that have adorned 
that great legislative body. Men famed for their ability, 
their eloquence and statesmanship, men who have shaped 
legislation and molded public opinion, men who have 
fashioned the destiny of this gi-eat Republic; and when 
impartial history is written of the great work these men 
have performed Senator Shively will take high rank 
because of his splendid services, his great ability, and 
his unswerving fidelity to the cause of the people. 

Indiana has been signally fortunate in the great men 
in the last half century who have represented it in the 
United States Senate, the greatest lawmaking body in 
all the world. The people of Indiana are proud of these 
great men and their splendid achievements. It is one 
of the richest legacies they possess, and they are proud 
of the fact that Benjamin F. Shivei.y took high rank 
among these great statesmen, proud of the fact that he 
performed his duty in keeping with the other illustrious 
men who had been commissioned to represent that State 
in the National Congress and raised higher the standard 
of American statesmanship. We mourn his death, the 
loss of his wise counsel, and his genial association. We 
realize the value of his public service, of his great abili- 
ties, and how he labored to promote the welfare of the 
people. These redound to his honor and enshrine his 
name in the affections of a grateful public. 



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Address of Mr. Clink, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: I court the opportunity to speak very 
briefly of the subject of this occasion. I knew Benjamin 
Franklin Shivei.y for many years. He was a finished 
specimen of American citizenship, a patriot and a states- 
man. He was a wise, courageous, and capable man. He 
had many superior cmalities, chiefest among which was 
his unflinching integrity. You and I, as the years creep 
over us, come more and more to place a high estimate 
on the man who trusts in other men, who believes that 
the essential elements that come into correct living are 
made so by such a devotion to them that they become our 
ideals. I like a man who has faith in his fellows, who is 
the antithesis of he who doubts, mistrusts, and suspicions. 
Such a man has lost the value of living, in that he has 
himself written early across his life the word " failure." 
Two of the great words in the English tongue are faith 
and hope. In both of these symbols Ben Shively lived 
and wrought a useful life. May I say, without formality, 
that Senator Shively was on common ground with In- 
diana's greatest statesmen. There is one essential par- 
ticular that adds luster to his integrity and his name and 
leaves untarnished his political career— he died a poor 
man. In that particular, strange as it may appear, he has 
a place with all of Indiana's prominent men once in pub- 
lic life. It is a singular coincidence that Hendricks, 
McDonald, Voorhees, and Turpie were all men in very 
moderate circumstances. That fact alone is a fine herit- 
age to the youth of that great State. He was like these 
splendid men in another way. He was the peer of that 
galaxy of profound thinkers of the State of whom the 
people are justly proud. 



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Address of Mr. Cline, of Indiana 



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Senator Shively was not an offensive partisan, though 
long an active and consistent supporter of his party. 
His devotion to it is shown in the fact that in the days 
when it met with the greatest reverses he submitted to its 
call when a candidacy on the State ticket was absolutely 
hopeless. 

Year in and year out he traveled back and forth across 
the State, detailing before great audiences the principles 
of the political faith in which he believed without the 
hope of any reward except the patriotic duty well dis- 
charged. His ability and fairness in discussion won for 
him friends by the thousands. In 1908, when his party 
came to power in Indiana, he was readily chosen as its 
representative in the United States Senate. I need not 
relate to you the story of his successes. It is familiar to 
all. It is full of glory. When the Democratic Party came 
into power in 1912 the President of the United States 
found in him a safe counselor. In 1914, when he sought 
reelection at the hands of the people of his State, his popu- 
larity and ability were shown by the fact that though un- 
opposed for renomination he ran many thousands ahead 
of his ticket both at the primary and in the election. 

He was recognized all over Indiana and throughout the 
country as an authority on the subject of national taxation. 
Probably no contemporary in Congress has given so much 
time and study to that subject as had Senator Shively. 
Let me quote a paragraph from one of his speeches to 
show the breadth of thought and strong patriotism of this 
man: 

The solution of our problems does not lie alone in writing the 
rates of duty a little higher or a little lower, or in writing no rates 
at all, but in the coordination, control, and equitable distribution 
of all those commingling agencies of our production and distribu- 
tion, in all of which every man must contribute under law an 
untiring service to produce and distribute the material good won 



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by such study, such devotion, such patriotism to the myriads 
" who have sprung from the earth's bosom in this summer of 
political liberty." 

Senator Shively was also a warm advocate of legisla- 
tion in the interest of labor. When the proposition arose 
concerning the addition of a new member to the Presi- 
dent's Cabinet to represent labor, he deliver an able 
speech on the bill on February 26, 1913, to establish a De- 
partment of Labor. I select one paragraph of that speech 
to show the breadth of thought on this important subject: 

The American Declaration of Independence was an unqualified 
challenge to the whole political doctrine and philosophy of Aris- 
totle. That some of those who subscribed to that instrument were 
not entirely free from the spirit of caste we can easily believe. 
Yet it was issued at a time when then existing institutions and 
dogmas were under the white heat of a remorseless intellectual 
and moral inquisition, and many cherished idols of power were 
being cast down and melted away in the flame of a revolution 
that signalized a new conception of the true form and functions 
of government. It is easily conceivable that in the fervor and 
enthusiasm of that revolution the sponsors of the great declaration 
regarded the humblest toiler in the Colonies as of more value to 
society than the whole tribe of titled parasites bred at princely 
courts of kingly power. 

In every field of legislation he was a thorough student. 
He was a man of great value to the country at large. I 
have often admired him for his large-heartedness and 
sturdy character. He was a man of lofty purposes and 
high ideals. He was so well regarded by his party that 
in the St. Louis convention in 1908 he could have had the 
vice presidential nomination had he desired it. He was, 
in the largest sense, a patriot, and his service was always 
an unselfish one. In his death Indiana lost one of her 
foremost citizens and the country a man of the highest 
honor. He was a man of courage. Fortune never smiled 
upon him. What he was he accomplished through his 



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own efforts and his resolution to conquer whatever ob- 
stacles challenged his success. I can not help hut speak 
the word of Sarah K. Bolton, so applicable to the life and 
character of the distinguished Senator: 

I like the man who faces what he must 

With step triumphant and a heart of cheer; 

Who fights the daily battle without fear; 

Sees his hopes fail, yet keeps unfaltering trust 

That God is God; that somehow, true and just, 

His plans work out; for mortals not a tear 

Is shed when fortune, which the world holds dear, 

Falls from his grasp; better, with love, a crust 

Than living in dishonor; envies not 

Nor loses faith in man, but does his best 

Nor ever mourns over his humbler lot, 

But with a smile and words of hope gives zest 

To every toiler; he alone is great 

Who by life heroic conquers fate. 



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Address of Mr. Lieb, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: When Benjamin Franklin Shivelv died, 
full of years of public service, there was lost to this 
country one of the ablest statesmen of all times. Pos- 
sessed with a great mind that encompassed and illumined 
every subject he touched, Senator Shively ranked high 
in the annals of American statecraft. As a student, as a 
teacher, as an editor, as a lawyer, as a Member of the 
House of Bepresentatives, as a Member of the Senate, 
as a man among men, he gave all who came in contact 
with him through each step of his career the same im- 
pression of indomitable character, courage, and ability. 
He was not a leader of men in the usual acceptance of 
the term; he was more than that; he was the diviner of 
ways, the solver of difficulties, the meeter of trying sit- 
uations, the one man who was equal to every emergency. 

The sad intelligence of the death of Senator Shively, 
while not unexpected, owing to his long and brave fight 
for life, came as a shock to the Nation. It seemed almost 
impossible to think he had passed into the — 

Sinless, stirless rest, 

That change which never changes. 

Taken by the hand of death from his seat in the Upper 
Body of Congress, his colleagues were moved as men are 
seldom moved. 

Among the membership of the Senate not one of his 
colleagues could boast of service in Congress prior to 
the term when he first served in the House of Bepresenta- 
tives in 1884. It was an unusual commentary that he 
should be the youngest Member of Congress upon his 
ascension to statesmanship in Washington and that he 



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should be the oldest in the point of priority of service 
among his colleagues of his own political party in the 
Senate at his death. It was the Forty-eighth Congress 
when Senator Shively was elected to the House of Rep- 
resentatives. In this same House of Representatives 
Nathan Goff, of West Virginia, and Knute Nelson, of Min- 
nesota, like Senator Shively, were serving their first terms 
in the Lower Body of Congress. While 33 other Senators 
of the Sixty-fourth Congress had previously held seats 
in the House of Representatives, none of them had served 
prior to the Forty-ninth Congress. 

Some of my colleagues have spoken before me and have 
touched upon the splendid traits of the late Senator's 
character and life. Every word of tribute that has been 
uttered voices my sentiments. The esteem I had for 
Senator Shively grew more pronounced through the ad- 
vancing years of the acquaintanceship I had with him. 
I speak not in extolling a man whom I knew only through 
association in the National Capitol, but through an asso- 
ciation dating back to the early eighties, when the young 
and resourceful man began to make his mark as a Demo- 
crat and as an orator. I first met him in Indianapolis at 
a political gathering. From then until his death, a period 
of more than 30 years, I came in contact with him often. 

On the occasion of one of his last speeches before his 
election to the United States Senate I had the pleasure of 
introducing him to an audience at Rockport, my home 
city. This was during the campaign of 1908. I will never 
forget the impression he made in discussing the tariff 
issue. It was the most wonderful exposition on this sub- 
ject that I had ever heard. Eloquent in his oratory, but 
simple in his explanation of the principles of this great 
question, he held his audience in breathless attention. 
Senator Shively had all his life specialized on tariff and 
taxation, and at the time of his death there was a popular 
belief in Washington that he had few equals in knowledge 
of the tariff. 

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Anyone well acquainted with Senator Shively could not 
help but be impressed with his retiring manners. 

He was a man who studiously shunned the embellish- 
ments of life. He cared nothing for the glory of a per- 
sonal victory. As long as he won, he was satisfied. To 
gloat over a triumph over his political adversaries or to 
get out and hurrah over his political successes was not a 
trait in his character. Simplicity was always a craving 
in him. One of his friends remarked at his funeral, when 
others had noticed the simplicity of the rites: 

Why, he wouldn't even let us celebrate his election to the Senate. 
We wanted to get up a big jollification, but Fmnk vetoed it firmly. 
He simply would not do an ostentatious thing. He loved the quiet 
of close communion with his friends. 

I always found Senator Shively to be a man easy to 
approach. He never refused an audience unless circum- 
stances made it impossible. Even when his health failed 
him almost completely he received his friends in his office 
in the Capitol ready as ever to give his ear to whatever 
might be brought to his attention. I visited him several 
times when he was too fatigued to sit at. his office desk. 
But each time he lay on his couch and evidenced his 
usual interest in the affairs that had come up, even though 
pain was written on the contours of his face when he 
talked and listened. I was a visitor at his bedside in the 
hospital a short time before his death, and in his greatly 
weakened condition he evidenced a surprising interest in 
the prevailing topics of the day. Until the very last he was 
keenly alert to the wants and needs of his constituency. 

It is in the community in which a man has made his 
home that one gets a true insight into his character and 
esteem in which he is to be most critically observed. 
While I knew Senator Shively well enough to judge his 
many worthy traits through and through, I perhaps never 
appreciated more fully the high regard in which he was 

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generally held than on the sad occasion when his body 
-was borne through the streets of South Bend. It seemed 
as though the whole city had turned out. 

South Bend is a large manufacturing city, and I judged 
from the faces and dress of the throngs that lined the 
streets and visited the Shively home that workingmen 
from the factories had joined with the bankers, the trades- 
men, the professional men, and men in all walks of life 
in paying tribute to the fellow townsman they had all 
loved. Here, then, was a man who had gained eminence 
by no fluke. His own people had been sincere in their 
suffrage to him in his many battles of campaign, red fire, 
and oratory, and in the harbor of the final refuge he was 
borne through silent avenues of a grieving people. 

No wealth had been left behind this son of Indiana soil, 
but what is more greatly cherished— a good name — was 
bequeathed to a people who had thrilled in the thought 
of this priceless legacy. 

The life of Senator Shively was great in years and 
great in achievements. His work in this mundane sphere 
of action has ended. He will be missed by his colleagues 
and by his countrymen, but the greatest loss will be to 
his fond and noble wife and children, to whom he was 
a devoted husband and a loving father. May they have 
comfort in his honorable and successful life. 



Address of Mr. Gray, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker : Time is a great analyzer of facts. Time is 
a great demonstrator of truth. Time is a great vindicator 
of principles and policies and men. Time will tell. In 
the great final analysis time will weigh and consider and 
determine the right and the true worth and merit of men. 
When time has weighed and decreed its estimate of great 
national policies and public men it will place the name of 
Benjamin F. Shively among the great men of the State 
he honored by his representation and among the great 
leaders in the Nation he served. 

Men build great monuments and raise enduring marble 
shafts to hold up their names after death. They erect 
great buildings, structures, and imposing statuary to bold 
up their names after death. Men climb to dizzy heights 
and chisel their names upon some high rock or lofty crag 
to hold up their names after death. 

But in time the monument and enduring shaft will 
crumble away. In time the great building, structure, or 
imposing statuary will fall to the earth. In time the ele- 
ments will erase the name chiseled in the high rock or 
overhanging crag. In time every vestige, trace, and evi- 
dence of the efforts of men in a material and physical 
way to perpetuate their names will be obliterated from 
the earth. 

But Benjamin F. Shively has built his monument in the 
great principles and policies of government for which he 
has stood and defended and promoted by his ability as a 
statesman and an orator of the highest rank. 

There are some men who have obtained high rank, 
distinction, and national reputation because their names 



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have been linked or associated with great and important 
acts of legislation in Congress, when the real labors by 
which the legislation has been framed and enacted into 
law have been performed by others. Many times men 
thus take credit and obtain fame by reason cf their place 
and position in the enactment of great legislative meas- 
ures, and not by virtue of performing greater duties or 
more able services than others. But the honor, credit, 
and distinction won by Benjamin F. Shively has been 
won by sheer force of his abilities as a statesman, his 
talents as an orator, and his zeal and indefatigable indus- 
try- in the study of public questions, and his advocacy on 
the floor of the House of Bepresentatives and the Senate 
where he has served the people of his country. 

Mr. Speaker, I regret that circumstances have denied me 
an opportunity to express my full appreciation and to 
speak at greater length on the life and services of Ben- 
jamev F. Shiyely, late Senator from Indiana, but I could 
not refrain from speaking these few words in honor of 
his memorv. 



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Address of Mr. Morrison, of Indiana 

Mr. Speaker: The people of the State of Indiana had 
through many years of his political and official public life 
come to know intimately and to hold in highest esteem the 
man whose memory we are met to-day to honor, the late 
Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of Indiana. 

Born and reared in St. Joseph County, Ind., he resided 
in that county during all of his eventful and honorable 
life. He was long the most distinguished citizen of the 
city of South Bend, was an honor to the city, and was 
honored highly by all its people. 

His was a strong, active, and analytical mind. He was 
ever a thorough student. He acquired a thorough knowl- 
edge of the facts in every case and a clear grasp of the 
principles involved. He traced much of the unorthodox 
teachings of political adventurers to " intellectual sloth," 
rather than to a deliberate purpose to sacrifice correct 
principles for temporary convenience or personal ad- 
vantage. In his own life intellectual sloth was never for 
a moment tolerated. 

Senator Shively was elected to represent his district in 
the Forty-eighth, Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second 
Congresses, at the end of which service he voluntarily 
retired from public life and to the practice of his chosen 
profession — the law. By that time he had gained a repu- 
tation for high character and great ability that made it 
impossible for him to live a retired and quiet life, free 
from active participation in political and other forms of 
public activity and service. His party made insistent and 
incessant demands upon him. It desired the benefit of 
his learning, ability, and sound judgment, and it never 
appealed to him in vain. 



Address of Mr. Morrison, of Indiana 

In times of public agitation and resulting political and 
social unrest Senator Shively did not seek to avoid prob- 
lems by denying their existence, nor by misstating their 
terms, nor by minimizing their importance, nor yet by 
attempting to sense out the trend of public thought and 
following the line of least resistance. It has not been 
my privilege to enjoy the friendship and to receive the 
helpful advice of any man who had a broader, deeper, 
or more accurate knowledge of American history or the 
fundamental principles of the American Government. 
He believed in our institutions. He knew them with the 
thoroughness that spares no labor and overlooks no de- 
tail, and was ever ready to give a reason for the faith 
that was in him. Like the founders of the Republic, he 
knew the centuries of human history out of which came 
the almost superhuman wisdom with which the fathers 
framed the Constitution and established the elementary 
powers, purposes, and activities of the Central Govern- 
ment of our people, exercising in full and exclusive sov- 
ereignty the powers, and performing effectively the duties 
cast upon it by the fundamental law of the land. He 
knew the division of powers and duties that necessarily 
results from our dual form of government, believed in it 
with all his mind and heart, and refused in times of peace 
and tranquillity or in times of excitement or in response 
to the dangers of political storm or stress to forget that 
there is a dividing line or to change his mind as to just 
where it lies. 

To him who has not studied the history of the past all 
suggested changes in the organic or statute law of the 
Nation or of the State are equally novel. They are as 
novel to their proponents as they are to other persons, if 
all are alike unfamiliar with fact, the times, and the cir- 
cumstances of their prior presentations, discussions, trials, 
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them were ancient history, and to him history furnished 
irrefutable evidence of the degree of merit or demerit 
that must at last be credited to each of them by en- 
lightened public opinion. This element of his intellectual 
equipment enabled him to maintain a steadfast position 
in all circumstances and to pursue a straight course 
through every maze of conflicting interests and ill-consid- 
ered opinions of men. Eveiy student of public questions 
in Indiana gave great weight to Senator Shively's delib- 
erate and final judgment. They learned only of his last 
and best thought, for he was accustomed to investigate, 
learn, weigh, and consider before he undertook to discuss 
a public question. He did not seek men out and attempt 
to impress his opinions upon them. They had learned to 
seek him out that they might have the benefit of his ability, 
scholarship, and sound judgment. 

Senator Shively was truly great as an advocate of his 
views upon public questions. He spoke without manu- 
script or notes, but not without preparation. The speech 
as it fell from his lips was ready for publication, and 
needed not to be edited or revised. 

He did not seek to impress men with his eloquence. He 
sought only to enlighten their minds and move their wills. 
When he was at his strongest and best his hearers sat in 
solemn silence and he read the verdict of their approval 
in the stillness of their rapt attention, rather than in their 
rounds of thunderous applause. 

His service in the Senate of the United States came at a 
time when his ability, character, characteristics, and his 
intellectual attainments and habits gave to him peculiar 
fitness to meet the exact duties that were immediately cast 
upon him. So long as his physical strength would permit 
he was a trusted and safe adviser to the President in the 
decision of those first questions growing out of our foreign 
complications, the correct decision of which has made 

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possible the correct and unimpeachable record which the 
President has made in the establishment and maintenance 
of his foreign policy. 

To us his death seemed untimely and his brethren can 
not but mourn. And yet it is not for us to judge of the 
times and the seasons. We can not know what his full 
mission was or when he had completed his allotted task. 
We only know that his ability was great, his attainments 
were high, he was faithful to every trust, and rendered a 
public service worthy of the great man he truly was. 

His character, attainments, record, and high achieve- 
ments make it impossible to write the history of his State 
or country without paying homage to his name. To wife, 
daughter, and sons he left a precious heritage of blessed 
memories and of public honors and gratitude the value 
and consolation of which they alone can ever know. 

We who have known him best and to whom his friend- 
ship was dearest and most helpful shall ever think of him 
as one of the greatest of the great men Indiana has given 
to our national life. 

The Speaker pro tempore. According to the terms of 
the resolution heretofore adopted, the House will now 
stand adjourned. 

Thereupon (at 3 o'clock p. m.) the House adjourned 
until to-morrow, Monday, February 19, 1917, at 12 o'clock 
noon. 

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